Between this and Drach's six hour Patreon Drydock, I am convinced that this is a coordinated hitjob on the schedule of everyone who is into 20th century tech history
RUclips: *massively pushes short-form content* Quality content creators: *oh, my viewers prefer long videos, let's make a movie* Love it, Rex, thank you!!!!!!! Take notes, YT...
Suggestion: that one time the US tried to make a nucular-powered jet-engine for their stealth-bomber. The exhaust-fuel was U-238 salts if memory serves... yum!
The DC-3 quickly became my favorite in MSFS, and after 100 hours I'm more than eager for a Rex-style history of the company. Your timing is impeccable and you spoil us with such a lengthy video. Goodnight!
Not an aircraft nerd or historian, nor do I work in the industry. It's just interesting to see how people with larger testicles than me solved problems with little to none hindsight to work off of. Like building a machine to keep a bunch of primates airborne... Ape together strong... 😁
I’m compiling a comprehensive list of airplanes from the history of flight and your videos are instrumental in my research. My grandfather was in the USAAF from the 1920s through the 1950s and he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in WWII, where he worked with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. Thanks for your detailed work.
Whewwweeweeeeew 3 and *half* hours of Rex's aviation babble?(I mean that in the most endearing way, I know Rex puts enormous amounts of research in.) Count me in!!!
It was an extraordinary pleasure for me to watch the video and listen to your voice while I built a scalemodel in 1/35. And before that I watched your legendary video about the Do X. For the 3rd time... I love your way of telling stories and even if I don't always understand everything 100% because I'm German, I never find it difficult to keep track. Thank you very much for that.
Nice, the Douglas Aircraft is one of the more interesting companies. Back in the early 80's my dad's friend had a DC-3 he flew out of Zephyrhills, ferrying skydivers. Once, they took me up in it when dad went skydiving. After dad and the rest of the skydivers jumped, dad's buddy had me come to the cockpit, and sit in the copilots seat. I was amazed watching him calmly handling and explaining all of the levers, dials, buttons, and toggles. That was a hell of a day.
This video sparks an interest in the growth, mergers, bankruptcies and a acquisitions of the American aircraft industry throughout the history of what is now basically 3 giant companies....I'd love to see that vid
Lol, I paused video and closed app with about 10 min left, to do something else for a minute, and when I re-opened, the app showed the video in my history as fully viewed. I guess at 95% complete they assume I was just skipping out on the final 10 seconds of patreon names that most vids would have. But I'm like "No, I still haven't heard about the merger!"
Great video! I really enjoyed it and appreciate the improved content over the original. One nit… unlike NASA, NACA is only pronounced by the letters “N-A-C-A”.
I learned so much from this. Absolutely fascinating. To my shame, I knew very little about the civilian airliner story, having been a militiary aircraft fan from a boy. I now realise what I should have realised much earlier - that the military and civilian stories were inextricably intertwined.
It seems that most creators I watch or listen to have been met with success after disregarding time constraints and providing quality information for as long as a given story takes to tell. Look at Hardcore History, episode length went out the window and listeners poured in by the thousands. Algorithm be damned. Thanks for making this fascinating content.
You deny us hours of extra information, review and footage. Rex, I listen to Drachinifel every Sunday. I have sat through 4 hour Dr. Alexander Clarke videos. All I do is listen to stuff on this app. The Volgun, Welcome To Nightvale, Greg's Planes, Trains & Automobiles. I listen to many more. Pour it on us
48:53 USPS actually has an armed SWAT team. Kind of nuts to me that even as late as the early 1930s, most aircraft manufacturers were still building their planes completely by hand. Ain't going to lie. I teared up a bit over Jr and Sr overcoming their relationship issues. Despite his dad basically disowning him over his marriage, he was still there for him when he needed it. Course it probably helped that he too got divorced, basically proving his dad right when he said "Don't marry that woman." Despite the company's eventual collapse, it cannot be denied that Douglas aircraft saved thousands apon thousands, if not tens of thousands, of lives with just three models. The TBD Devastator The SBD Dauntless THE C-47 SKYTRAIN
Legend has it that McDonal Douglas didn't actually go under, but got Boeing to finance their buyout of Boeing, and are hard at work ruining that company.
Thanks for sharing such valuable information! Could you help me with something unrelated: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
Between this and Drach's six hour Patreon Drydock, I am convinced that this is a coordinated hitjob on the schedule of everyone who is into 20th century tech history
you might be right.... who cares about resposibileties, long live DRACH AND REX
I would guess that these creators have significant watcher overlap
RUclips: *massively pushes short-form content* Quality content creators: *oh, my viewers prefer long videos, let's make a movie* Love it, Rex, thank you!!!!!!! Take notes, YT...
Exactly !
Shorts and A.I. generated crap is killing RUclips.....the down fall of RUclips will be his next video lol
"Special extended edition" we're reaching LotR levels here
But not Das Boot uncut levels
@@Daniel_cheems we'll eventually get there
The next 3 hours and 30 minutes now has a purpose
Listening to rex and petting dogs is now my agenda for the day
I have a wonderful documentary to learn about aviation and hopefully not fall asleep, but I usually end up listening to these 3 or 4 times.
One of the few youtube 3 and a half hour vids worth watching 🎉
I'm impressed 👏
This masterpiece is why anyone who likes aircraft and watches youtube is very lucky!
As the MD people have done to Boeing, they also did to Douglas: They let the business majors run things instead of the engineers.
No more doom scrolling, I just need hours on a topic without hyperactivity, without distracting tangents, just one theme and a good narrator.
A 3 and a half hour history of Douglas Aircraft? You absolute legend.
Q&A / Request Section - Ask your questions, or post suggestions, here :)
What’s the hardest and easiest part of making your videos?
Also if I can request at the same time; the R3Y trade wind would be pretty cool
I have an idea for a funny video. If you could mix the planes from one country to another at the start of the WWII what would you do?
Could you do a video on super props
Suggestion: that one time the US tried to make a nucular-powered jet-engine for their stealth-bomber. The exhaust-fuel was U-238 salts if memory serves... yum!
Rex if you still take requests, I would really like to see a video about the WW2 romanian IAR 80 fighter. Thanks!
LOOOONG form documentaries can be good or bad, you are definitely in the Very Good category.
The DC-3 quickly became my favorite in MSFS, and after 100 hours I'm more than eager for a Rex-style history of the company. Your timing is impeccable and you spoil us with such a lengthy video. Goodnight!
I see Rex's Hangar, I click....as simple as that!
Having watched all of Drachinifel's anything up to 6 hour marathon Dry Dock's, I don't consider 3½ hours of Rex isn't in the least part excessive. 😁
I've been longing for an extended version of the Douglas full history video and all I can say is... It's super worth the wait! ❤
I straight up love these videos you put out. TOP NOTCH!!!! quality!!!
My word, what a master piece, again. Just absolutely fabulous material as always. Thank you so much for all this work. You rock, harder than ever.
Really good in-depth survey .. fascinating and enjoyable. Thank you.
Not an aircraft nerd or historian, nor do I work in the industry. It's just interesting to see how people with larger testicles than me solved problems with little to none hindsight to work off of. Like building a machine to keep a bunch of primates airborne... Ape together strong... 😁
Ook.
Eatin good today, first this masterpiece. Then Not A Pound's Super Sabre
Glad to have the extra details that didn’t make the shorter version
I’m compiling a comprehensive list of airplanes from the history of flight and your videos are instrumental in my research. My grandfather was in the USAAF from the 1920s through the 1950s and he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in WWII, where he worked with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. Thanks for your detailed work.
I'm 2 and a half hours in and I am RIVETED. Thanks Rex for having an engaging narrative and I have to say, astonising level of research.
Love your long form videos dude! Thanks for making this! (Love the short ones too, they’re all great!)
Alright! Another Rex video! Beats watching/listening to the Minnesota Vikings for sure.
Rex, you legend. This fascinating history, that I didn't know I needed, got me through a 4 hour drive. Thank you!
Excellent stuff. Had to pause for rest at 2hrs 20 min but .... I shall return !
Lots of teasers re desirable future content too :-)
Absolutely fantastic documentary, your usage of so many different images and videos is wonderful. Thank you so much for putting this together!
Whewwweeweeeeew 3 and *half* hours of Rex's aviation babble?(I mean that in the most endearing way, I know Rex puts enormous amounts of research in.) Count me in!!!
It was an extraordinary pleasure for me to watch the video and listen to your voice while I built a scalemodel in 1/35. And before that I watched your legendary video about the Do X. For the 3rd time... I love your way of telling stories and even if I don't always understand everything 100% because I'm German, I never find it difficult to keep track. Thank you very much for that.
Nice, the Douglas Aircraft is one of the more interesting companies. Back in the early 80's my dad's friend had a DC-3 he flew out of Zephyrhills, ferrying skydivers. Once, they took me up in it when dad went skydiving. After dad and the rest of the skydivers jumped, dad's buddy had me come to the cockpit, and sit in the copilots seat. I was amazed watching him calmly handling and explaining all of the levers, dials, buttons, and toggles. That was a hell of a day.
This video sparks an interest in the growth, mergers, bankruptcies and a acquisitions of the American aircraft industry throughout the history of what is now basically 3 giant companies....I'd love to see that vid
Love it, so fascinating to get the details behind so many historic & iconic moments
Great job! Very torough, very interesting!
Lol, I paused video and closed app with about 10 min left, to do something else for a minute, and when I re-opened, the app showed the video in my history as fully viewed. I guess at 95% complete they assume I was just skipping out on the final 10 seconds of patreon names that most vids would have. But I'm like "No, I still haven't heard about the merger!"
Great video! I really enjoyed it and appreciate the improved content over the original.
One nit… unlike NASA, NACA is only pronounced by the letters “N-A-C-A”.
Superb job Rex, thank you.
Excelente vídeo ! Não é fácil condensar uma história rica em detalhes tendo pouco tempo para isso!
Subscribed. Love your work.
I learned so much from this. Absolutely fascinating. To my shame, I knew very little about the civilian airliner story, having been a militiary aircraft fan from a boy. I now realise what I should have realised much earlier - that the military and civilian stories were inextricably intertwined.
3 1/2 hours of aircraft history to fall asleep to. Lovin' it!
Needed this. Internets been out all day and my phone is all I have so this saved me from boredom
Bloody fantastic vid. Only complaint is Rex referring to Airlines as AIRLINERS.
Thanks Jody, merry Xmas one and all, “just 3 more watches please” 👍👍
Been waiting all day to watch this!
Excellant photos!!Merci
Well done indeed! I look forward to the sequels! 🙃
Thanks mate , that was epic.
It seems that most creators I watch or listen to have been met with success after disregarding time constraints and providing quality information for as long as a given story takes to tell. Look at Hardcore History, episode length went out the window and listeners poured in by the thousands. Algorithm be damned. Thanks for making this fascinating content.
so modern big air companies started because some rich people bought an airplane and had money
That was way better than lord of the rings
"Not afraid of long informative videos" nah we love this shit bro
Videos that would make you marry a stranger
WONDERFUL photos
Finally something to fall asleep to
You’ve spoiled us yet again, Rex!
time well spent today.
The best documentaries, like Grateful Dead concerts, are always more than three hours long.
Great job bloke.
Fantastic images
You deny us hours of extra information, review and footage.
Rex, I listen to Drachinifel every Sunday. I have sat through 4 hour Dr. Alexander Clarke videos.
All I do is listen to stuff on this app. The Volgun, Welcome To Nightvale, Greg's Planes, Trains & Automobiles. I listen to many more.
Pour it on us
oh snap, 3 hours!!!! RIGHT ON!!!
WTF U tube, this has be
en out seven HOURS and I'm just notified?
I did read that a DC3 in India during ww2 damaged a wing and lacking a spare, a DC2 wing was installed. Nicknamed the DC2-1/2, it still flew fine.
Super lecture👍👍👍
Oh hot damn, perfect timing!
Brilliant!!!!
At 1:45:32 between the cockpit and the navigators position is that the wine rack?
Always enjoy Rex's quick-fire key-point precis 🙄
You could do a whole channel, dedicated to missiles, especially as nobody else has!
Wow Brilliant
48:53 my friend, have you not heard of the US postal inspectors?
TFE?
@randomlyentertaining8287 yep
Please! Like and Subscribe before the engrossing content sucks you in to the point that you forget to eat or go to work.
48:53
USPS actually has an armed SWAT team.
Kind of nuts to me that even as late as the early 1930s, most aircraft manufacturers were still building their planes completely by hand.
Ain't going to lie. I teared up a bit over Jr and Sr overcoming their relationship issues. Despite his dad basically disowning him over his marriage, he was still there for him when he needed it. Course it probably helped that he too got divorced, basically proving his dad right when he said "Don't marry that woman."
Despite the company's eventual collapse, it cannot be denied that Douglas aircraft saved thousands apon thousands, if not tens of thousands, of lives with just three models.
The TBD Devastator
The SBD Dauntless
THE C-47 SKYTRAIN
Oh yea its time for my 3 hours of plane facts.
I look forward to your coverage of the F4D. The ford just looks rigght.
So short, not sure why it’s not 100 hours long 😅
Going to be on this and rendering simultaneously
In about 3 or 4 different ways, this is why I still bother getting out of bed in the morning.
It's going to take me several sessions to finish this one. 👴
around 01:49:02 - all this needs is one of those maps that one got in Indiana Jones' montages
Legend has it that McDonal Douglas didn't actually go under, but got Boeing to finance their buyout of Boeing, and are hard at work ruining that company.
A Dependable and reliable powerhouse
I foresee a good night of sleep in my future
Super content so far at 1:02:30.
Note to self. Brits apparently pronounce "PAH-kard" as Picard, as in Jon Luc
Back to the video :)
What a legend - as soon as I saw this I knew I was going to have lost three and a half hours of my life!!! 😀
Great I know what I am doing tonight
The C-17 blue prints were all marked McDonald-Douglas, but by then Boeing owned the build
Great manufacturer .pity they gone ,love the DC3
Føroyar mentioned 👍
Is the wreck of the Seattle still up there on that mountain?
Probably would have been better to have a light vtol carrier supporting the battleship battlegroup.
Rey is spoiling us!
At 1:49:55 shouldn't it be DC2 not DC3 ?
Thanks for sharing such valuable information! Could you help me with something unrelated: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How should I go about transferring them to Binance?
And now, Northrop owns the El Segundo facility. Funny how things turn out.
2:08:28 1941 😉
Just put "Sky" in the name, It'll be great!
Please sir give me a video on the F4f I'm dying
37:14 can anyone tell me why the US flag is upside down on that small boat in the foreground?
Upside down means "in distress" from my understanding. I'm guessing the boat needed help.
that pronunciation of Tajuana and Ensenada. oof.