Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Supermarine Spitfire

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  1. Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:16:29Unbuilt Fleet Air Arm favourites from the propeller and jet erasQ&A
  2. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:48:17Why war emergency power was restricted in trainingNotable Point
  3. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    3:14:28Newer home-based fighters could release Spitfires and Hurricanes for AsiaNotable Point
  4. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    5:02:01A disputed gull-wing design for a naval SpitfireNotable Point
  5. The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)
    21:25Why wartime aircraft development favors specializationChapter
  6. Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:55:20Why Operation C3 would struggle to take MaltaQ&A
  7. What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)
    1:49:03Would an independent Fleet Air Arm accelerate fighter development?Q&A
  8. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:17:31Shared wing research and convergent aircraft designNotable Point
  9. Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)
    15:04Why the Spitfire wing is excluded from the rankingNotable Point
  10. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    59:18Why Hurricanes fit Malaya better than MaltaNotable Point
  11. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:51:14Why Japan pursued floatplane fighters more seriouslyQ&A
  12. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    5:12:27Spitfire production delays and the RAF's overseas prioritiesNotable Point
  13. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    2:05:18P-80 wing strength in the V-1 interception questionQ&A
  14. Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:17:24A Treasury objection to the Griffon SpitfireNotable Point
  15. Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy
    27:27Factory capacity narrows Britain's design choicesNotable Point
  16. Brewster Buffalo: An Aircraft let down by it's Company...
    4:46Why a good 1940 fighter could be obsolete by 1942Notable Point
  17. Brewster Buffalo: An Aircraft let down by it's Company...
    10:33Carrier landings exposed a fixable undercarriage weaknessNotable Point
  18. Brewster Buffalo: An Aircraft let down by it's Company...
    36:21How the Ki-43 changed the Buffalo's air combat prospectsNotable Point
  19. Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    24:32The purpose-built Seafire Britain considered before warNotable Point
  20. The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...
    2:40F.7/30 and the rapid-climb interceptorNotable Point
  21. The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...
    19:03Seafire procurement and Churchill's oppositionChapter
  22. The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 7
    1:14:19Malta fighter ferry operations meet stowage and quality-control limitsChapter
  23. Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!
    2:50:03A mature 4,000-horsepower Sabre would reshape British aircraftQ&A
  24. F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 3
    12:33Power-to-weight as a naval-aircraft yardstickNotable Point
  25. F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 3
    27:42Climb performance meets a changing interception problemChapter
  26. F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 3
    39:40A 1944 war start changes the remembered aircraftNotable Point
  27. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    1:24:18Japanese pilots could reinforce the Battle of Britain firstNotable Point
  28. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    3:28:03British reserve fighters could equip Japanese pilotsNotable Point
  29. Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist
    30:52Why the Fulmar needs a carrier-specific comparisonNotable Point
  30. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    2:03:52Spitfire production displaces a naval fighter proposalNotable Point
  31. How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre
    33:18Räumboote: the German fast craft often misidentifiedChapter
  32. HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 7
    34:07The single-seat fighter Illustrious was meant to carryNotable Point
  33. Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation
    45:29Sea Fury and Spitfire as fleet information assetsNotable Point
  34. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    1:25:12A continuous cycle of carrier fightersNotable Point
  35. Top 5 Inventions that came too Late
    7:36Wartime production lock-in and the missing high-power engineNotable Point
  36. Top 5 Inventions that came too Late
    10:15Power-to-weight limits on Barracuda and naval fightersNotable Point
  37. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    2:16:51Armor or a purpose-built naval Spitfire?Q&A
  38. Kirov Class Cruisers (Soviet Navy)
    30:12Molotov tests a catapult-launched SpitfireNotable Point
  39. 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)
    34:52Channel Dash detection and planning assumptionsChapter
  40. ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    20:14The Walrus as a cruiser reconnaissance toolNotable Point
  41. Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?
    1:31:53The unrealized Supermarine gull-wing naval fighter pathChapter
  42. Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?
    3:03:21The Spanish Civil War challenged bomber-first assumptionsQ&A
  43. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/4
    10:03Canaris and the alleged Ju 52 air-threat scareQ&A
  44. Turreted Fighter: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p4/7
    9:31Roc development costs and a more powerful SkuaNotable Point
  45. Hawker Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s
    2:37:36Why the Hurricane accepted early 20 mm cannon more readilyQ&A
  46. Bruships 44: Strategy
    24:28A naval fighter must fit fleet range requirementsNotable Point
  47. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?
    9:59Removing prices turns Allied economies into one war machineChapter
  48. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease
    11:03Hurricane range followed the interceptor requirementNotable Point
  49. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    2:23:58Why Hurricanes could be useful on the Eastern FrontQ&A
  50. Bruships 34: Random History
    2:53:37Mitchell's biplane benchmark and the road to the F.7/30 fighterChapter
  51. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 322
    23:11Leadership change narrows Supermarine's wartime choicesNotable Point
  52. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 322
    26:19Radar forces the Air Ministry toward fighter defenceNotable Point
  53. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 322
    27:47A carrier fighter trades speed for controlled-crash strengthNotable Point
  54. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 322
    38:23Walrus and Spitfire sum up Supermarine's two strengthsChapter
  55. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 2/3 Swan to S.6B
    27:35A 2,350 hp engine in 1939 would reshape British air powerNotable Point
  56. Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 1/3 Sea Lion 1-Sea Lion 2
    8:51Harold Paine's dismissal reshaped Supermarine's successionNotable Point
  57. The Fairey Story - Part 4 of 4: Into WWII
    17:35How the Fulmar stopgap became a wartime commitmentNotable Point
  58. Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    11:46Seafire FR.47 brings a wartime fighter lineage to KoreaChapter
  59. The Fairey Story Anew...
    1:59:44The Spitfire was not simply a converted racing seaplaneQ&A
  60. 1940 Norway Campaign Part 4 of 5: After 1940 - Quislings & Commandos
    10:24The Blackburn Skua over NorwayNotable Point
  61. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 2 of 3: Fleet Air Arm's Finest Hour
    1:09:41Repairability keeps an air group flying beyond the first dayNotable Point
  62. Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk
    14:21Combat damage and the standard for a probable victoryNotable Point
  63. Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:26:58When a successful fighter delays its own replacementNotable Point
  64. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    6:48Cannon fighters and wartime learningNotable Point
  65. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    10:40Aircraft production without an immediate bombing threatNotable Point
  66. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    12:44Fleet Air Arm options before the war hardensNotable Point
  67. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6b Introduction to Patreon Video 4...
    45:24Industrial learning and the aircraft-cannon problemNotable Point
  68. Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?
    1:12:36Did contemporaries recognize Henderson's influence?Q&A