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What has your research and in person examination and videoing of the subject aircraft for Inside the Cockpit taught you that most don't or can't learn from a book or the internet?

Nicholas Mew

What aspects of military aviation and technology reporting do you find most annoying or infuriating?

Nicholas Mew

Hello, will there be a video on nightfighting in WW 2? About Planes, tactics and the development? The differences between Allied and Axis doctrin ? Thank you.

Christ Ian

Do you have a pair of AirForce 1s?

Captain Picard (Dee)

Does Ukraine have an airforce?

Captain Picard (Dee)

Sure! Here: Hi, weapon related question: I hear all the time that the AIM54 Phoenix was built for taking down bombers and slow, big aircrafts, not fighters. I also heard that was made for Air to Air combat precisely to down fighters and they even thought to use the Phoenix as a replacement for the AIM7 Sparrow but in the end they just kept both missiles. Unfortunately, I only found "dudes on the internet" or "books with a special hate for citing sources" talking about this. I tried looking for training manuals with no success, and I even tried to contact Ward Carroll about this but he's a busy man and I don't think he has time to answer internet squabbles. I was hoping you could point me to some primary or secondary source that addresses the issue definitively.

Could you repost it, sadly I don't see the question

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Hi, weapon related question: I hear all the time that the AIM54 Phoenix was built for taking down bombers and slow, big aircrafts, not fighters. I also heard that was made for Air to Air combat precisely to down fighters and they even thought to use the Phoenix as a replacement for the AIM7 Sparrow but in the end they just kept both missiles. Unfortunately, I only found "dudes on the internet" or "books with a special hate for citing sources" talking about this. I tried looking for training manuals with no success, and I even tried to contact Ward Carroll about this but he's a busy man and I don't think he has time to answer internet squabbles. I was hoping you could point me to some primary or secondary source that addresses the issue definitively.

From my time watching you and others diligently research and present your information, one of my observations is that many myths and misconceptions arise and linger due to the language barrier making understanding difficult/impossible. Do you think that is often the case?

Nicholas Mew

When doing your Inside the Cockpit videos, was there ever a moment when a certain design or ergonomic choice just had you going, "Why!?".

Nicholas Mew

I second those questions of Matteo Folci.

Hans Peter Bak

1)what do you think about the Regia aeronautica in wwII? 2) do you have plans to bring some italian aircrafts to the channel?(loved the sm 79 video)

Q1: What is your opinion of flying these ancient machines? Naturally if a serious issue occurs one cannot simply get out a flying airplane to fix it (generally speaking). For arguments sake, the maintenance is top notch and crew is well trained. Q2: Plan to interview museum staff about maintenance or preservation? Q3: Episode of an museum aircraft being maintained (be it cleaning and preservation, or full maintenance for airworthiness, flight ready.) Q4: Review of all the museums you been to, what you like about them, what they have, and *maybe* what you wish they would do.

Joe Kudrna

How much do you want one of those little F-16 go-karts in the thumbnail? As an actual question, during WWII the RAF mounted RADARs in four-engined bombers to help in the hunt for U-boats. What modifications were needed to fit the RADARs and where did the put the crew station for the radar operator?

Robert Santamaria

A long one that I hope will be funny to read and answer: Assumptions: You can fly a jetfighter, any jetfighter, in fact Maverick from Top Gun has posters of you on his wall, that's how good you are. Question is limited to currently active jet-fighters among the big players, USA, Russia, China, Europe... (Add any major-player as you see fit.) For narrative reasons you're being chased out of a building on an airfield. Outside are one of each, currently active jetfighters arranged on a line-up, all ready to go. From the absolutely shitiest jet-fighter, to the most powerful. The closest one is the shitty one. This one barely even jet-fights at all. It's well maintained, that's not the problem. The problem is the design. It is a "jet-fighter" that managed to fail in all relevant categories and is somehow still forced into service, doing what little it can do. Which one is it? Before you're caught you can easily steal this one and get away. But at the very end of the line, is the single best jet-fighter known to mankind. Which one is this? And maybe you can reach it. You leg it down the line as fast you can go, passing by jet-figters of increasing power and capability. But you only get half-way down the line, before other guards show up. You have to take the plane in the middle. Which one is that? You take off in the middle plane and as soon as you're up and enemy fighter shows up. It is identical to yours. It'll be a dogfight. Do you trust the plane to do that? Question here is, technologically you're evenly matched to your opponent. Would piloting skill affect the outcome? You are most definately better than him as a pilot. NB: I know that most aircraft in the military are specialised to different roles and so it's hard to compare a Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet to an F-35, as they perform very different tasks. Feel free to limit the question to aircraft specializing in "Air superiority"/Dogfighting.

1.) Whats the state of the channel in 2022? Any projects/goals for this year? 2.) Why did you choose the Stuka as topic for the book and not the he111 or ju88? (can we expect a book about those too?) 3.) Since bernhard and you now have covered the Infantry (Assault Platoon of the Grenadiers), the tanks (H.Dv. 470/7 mittlere Panzerkompanie) and the air artillery (Stuka Book), what will be next? Artillery (the big boomsticks of the wehrmacht) or even combined arms warfare in the wehrmacht?

Reichsbierminister

I'm contemplating writing a book about the CA-27 Avon Sabre (Australia's improved version of the F-86 Sabre) and as far as I can tell, nobody has written a book specifically about this aircraft yet. However, I already have a full time job as well as playing in a band and creating YouTube content. Seeing as you've co-written several books, do you think I should pursue this endevour or is it a stress-fuelled disaster waiting to happen?

Have you been in contact with the Swedish Airforce Museum re doing Inside The Cockpit? Would love to see some Swedish planes. They are open and even have a JAS ;) https://flygvapenmuseum.se/en/start/

Jens Backman

Looking just at air to air fighter tactics, does any WWII Air Force stand out from the crowd?

Jens Backman

If you could own/have access to one plane, which would it be?

Minion

Is this to go along with the Elbonian armament program that Ian (Forgotten Weapons) was asked about? :)

ViggenCA

In your recent stuka tactics video you mentioned the Luftwaffe had CAS with special training, will you ever get around to a video on that?

Fritz Krammer

Classic Elbonia question, It’s 1946 and you are in charge of aircraft acquisition for the Elbonian Air Force, but you are a traitor trying to make it the worst combination of aircraft, but can’t be too obvious. They require one fighter, one light bomber, and one heavy bomber, what do you choose and why?

Where in Germany is your home? Your full address, please.

Captain Picard (Dee)

What's your favorite food?

Captain Picard (Dee)

How tall are you?

Captain Picard (Dee)

Who is going to win the Super Bowl?

Captain Picard (Dee)

If Tupac were a jet, what jet would he be? Biggie Smalls?

Captain Picard (Dee)

When are you coming to America?

Captain Picard (Dee)

Is the Canadian airforce the wimpiest airforce in the G5?

Captain Picard (Dee)

Which plane built since 1970 has the most #BDE?

Captain Picard (Dee)

Are there such things as aviation groupies? If so - how do you deal with having so many?

Captain Picard (Dee)