Interesting Youtube Channels

Graham1973 said:
Found and Explained, a channel that covers all kinds of forgotten projects.
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F&E is quite decent to get an introduction on some obscure stuff, the CGI is also generally very neat. But quite often the videos fall apart at the details. Which I think many don't realize.

So while it's certainly not a terrible channel, some pieces should be taken with more salt than others.
 
Unsure as to where to put this - if there's a suitable topic, move this there, crosslink or whatever. Anyway, a couple of dudes have built two and a half (so far) Nieuport 23C-1s (Swiss specification). They recently received Aéro-Club de France's "Grand Prix du Patrimoine" and celebrated the event with a video; they have a nice website as well.

View: https://youtu.be/pNizQBys5kk


https://www.nieuport.ch/
 
Can't really find an appropriate home for this film posted today (18-Dec-2025) by Periscope Film. It's a 1956 Boeing Company Film concerning the B-52 and B-47, and work performed at Boeing Wichita. The film features outstanding color footage throughout.

Among the topics/subjects of the film, is the rebuild and modification of a B-52, the redesign of the B-52's wing into a new "Wet Wing," the rollout of the last B-47 manufactured; modifications to the B-47 for "Project Crossbow" (carrying Radioplane GAM-63 Crossbow anti-radar missiles/decoys); B-47s modified into DB-47E configuration for carrying and directing Bell GAM-63 RASCAL missiles, the related "Project Ebb Tide" for the modification of an additional 25 to 30 B-47s to DB-47E standard; modification of 15 RB-47E aircraft into RB-47K weather reconnaissance aircraft; testing of chaff/ECM pods for the B-47, wind tunnel testing for a KB-47E twin drogue "tactical" aerial tanker; high-temperature radomes; the installation and operation of Boeing Wichita's first supersonic (Mach 3 to Mach 4) wind tunnel; the revision of B-47 maintenance manuals, etc.

YouTube - Periscope Film: "'THE B-52 AND THE B-47' 1956 BOEING AIRCRAFT WICHITA BOMBER MAINTENANCE & DEVELOPMENT"
 
Maro.Kyo said:
I very much enjoy videos from Alexander the ok, he's an engineer (although not aerospace, CS or EE), passionate about the matter and does his research. From his channel :

View: https://youtu.be/YpruA5mC7wg?si=QflXnM98_JNZkq1O


View: https://youtu.be/kPfrk6Q5CXI?si=99zIKOTCtosTu1tA


View: https://youtu.be/MJPnZzZtswc?si=qBW2sSCfHnM4DWGV


View: https://youtu.be/dSih6Ch0Hzs?si=GHfhsjOff_iPeo7B


View: https://youtu.be/zf6bZBV7EWo?si=Vz_VCfYUQeIL7Lix


View: https://youtu.be/QKRszjV07ZQ?si=-Qmb1PIJb1tz9Zb9

There are other videos regarding space flight and other miscellaneous topics, so give a look.
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He has a bunch of great stuff on his channel for sure:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FLy2nI13E


Often pretty funny as well :)
 
Pixelbrick said:
He has a bunch of great stuff on his channel for sure:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0FLy2nI13E


Often pretty funny as well :)
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This guy is the real deal. Paper skies and Not a pound for air to ground seem to downplay Soviet tech, though NAPFATG I think is more from being more familiar with the western world and a subtle bias while Paper skies is totally understandable why he wishes to see the worst in it.

Someone posted his Su-24 stick caused ejection video here, what was neglected was that F-18 and other western planes had same exact issue. Turns out putting sticks and ejection handles next to each other requires careful consideration.

For Not a pound, one example I remember is he wouldn’t mention the improvements R-3S had over AIM-9B, seems to have a greater trust and knowledge in western primary sources, or how for Arab wars he would extol how Israel was so brilliant to turn Mirage III, an interceptor, into a frontline dogfighter, while criticizing Soviets and Arab countries for turning MiG-21, an interceptor, into a fighter. I think it could be easily said that the difference of MiG-21 vs Mirage III often came down to factors different from the planes, such as training maintenance tactics GCI, etc.

It’s not surprising and understandable considering Western equipment and history is so much better documented. I don’t mean to rag on them as I applaud their work and effort.

This person specializes in SU, their videos are either music or long multiple hour technobabble breakdowns of various equipment, here is on Soviet Vozduch automated GCI system connected to Lazur

View: https://youtu.be/a361tKKwx48
 
i have my own youtube channel, but ever since ive moved house, i havent found the time to make new video's for it:
https://www.youtube.com/@BelgiumsFlyingPast
among my favorite subscriptions are (among others):
-Rex Hangar (been mentioned here a few times already),
-Australian Military Aviation History: https://www.youtube.com/@raafdocumentaries
-Aviation Deepdive: https://www.youtube.com/@aviationdeepdive
-Ed Nash Military matters: https://www.youtube.com/@EdNashsMilitaryMatters

i tend to stay away from those awefull "Dark Documentaries" channels (Dark Skies, Dark History,...) i just hate those channels due to that awefull sped-up text-to-speech narrative and the way they spit out video's with poor content (they prefer quantity over quality i guess).
pretty much anything with an robotic AI narrative gets an instant thumbs down from me!
 
Spey_Phantom said:
much anything with an robotic AI narrative gets an instant thumbs down from me!
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It’s as if no one actually realizes that speaking into a microphone and editing is easy and fast and they are all just scared of how their voice sounds and people criticizing their voice.

People criticized the hell out of my voice when I started narrating YouTube videos on Soviet tech. But then they stopped becuase they realized I have sort of a unique voice and got used to it.
 
Several videos by the Canadian Tank Museum on their ' Project 1918' restoration of two WWI era vehicles one of which is an M1917 tank that if the information I've been given is correct is the one marked '40th Tank Cº.' in this screenshot from the 1930 prison drama 'The Big House'.

Sadly the team making the videos seem to have taken presentation ideas from the Discovery Channel

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


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xc8Z4mErOg


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg17HrVYy5k


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2-zrTkxDwU


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltoy72UI6eU

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnAky10fyfo
 

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