Very nice video ! I love old sound of piston engine of those old planes ! Try to imagine of this during Second World War !

Nice video,love that sound

@@pimuce Imagine the sound of 800 4-engine bombers and 200 fighter escorts in the air at one time.

Boy did I enjoy this

Wow that's awesome video thanks 😊☺️🇬🇧🇺🇸

Only beat out by the P-38 in my opinion. Forked Tailed Devil will always be my favorite.

@@biglew1161 nothing beats the DH Mosquito and Spitfire for Beauty

This is all subjective so I'd have to disagree, Russian planes have always been the most beautiful to me, MiG 3 is one of my faves from WW2 era

By chance a Detroit Company called .. (Packard) took that Contract after Mr.FORD not his Son decided the British can waste away. The 12 Cylinder Merlin Mk.V was the best at over 35 thousand feet.

Agreed! Many people say Spitfire, but imo that was way too clean looking. The Spitfire could just as well have been electric :)

Absolutely the greatest sound track the merlin

Yay

THANK YOU!

The Merlin is the music

Laminar airflow wings and the Rolls-Royce Royce merlin engine are the two components components that made this plane so successful

In your 2nd sentence the word order is wrong. It reads like WW2 occurred in the 1990s. "In the early 1990s I flew out of KCRQ with a vet who flew the P-51 in WW2."

​@@dareisnogod5711Fr I had to read that one twice.

@@dareisnogod5711 I clearly understood what he meant when I read it, no need to criticize...... so... wot's the deal??

@@HarvestTexas same lmao English must be their second language

Erich Hartmann schoß innerhalb von dreieinhalb Minuten 4 P51 mit seiner Me 109 G10 ab.Das größte Fliegerass der Welt. Hans Joachim Marseille schoß bei drei Einsätzen in Nord Afrika 17 Britische Flugzeuge mit seiner Me 109 G2 an nur einem Tag ab. Spitfire, Hurricane und P40. Bei uns deutschen war ein Brite oder Ami mit 5 Luftsiegen noch lange kein Ass.Bei der deutschen Luftwaffe galten viel höhere Maßstäbe.

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Packard Merlin

Yes the sound of that going by is like no other sound..... I can only imagine what it was like to the allied and german people in 1944 & 1945 to hear that zip buy close.... like no other sound of freedom close that any other will ever hear.. amazing

@@Demogrunt "sound of freedom"... LOL Freedom of what? Freedom and legitimation for greed, government terrorism and oppression?

Some men are still being born today with the right stuff

Reno NV air races my first time witnessing them April 83 most beautiful up close , my models were nice , but in person, magnificent to behold...😸🕊️💎👍☝️💪😎

F-35 could shoot it down.

@@brandonbp122 A bird can take them all down and it's oldest flying machine. Your point is moot.

dude theres a restoration hangar at march air force base of the P-38 i wish i could get in and see it

I think any 20-year-old mixing it up with 109s and 190s were shitting themselves when they engaged for the first time though. But yeah the sound is soo good but it would be even better if these planes could shoot training bullets. The merlin engine + the browning of these mustangs makes such a great sound all together

A 20 year old back then had the maturity level of a 40 old year now.

​@@cr1424A true statement

@@cr1424 nah they were just kids

@@ahouais5620 Definitely have to agree, but I'd guess that the woke liberal socially-sensitives of today would frown upon the idea. We really shouldn't give our youngsters a taste for conflict, right ?

I think the German fighters of that era were good too. And the zero Japanese. A great era of design

Yes, that's likely the reason why so many of today's flying P-51`s are two seaters. Also has great range, especially with additional internal wing tanks.

@@PaddyPatrone do you know the early history of your airplane? Were it was stationed out of and missions it participated in?

Same with Sukoi su-27, they look magnificent

@@snydedon9636 There is a link in the description for the aircrafts history and the website of the Museum that owns it.

A bit like the wife…

Couldn’t have been said better, thank you for your sacrifice and service sir

You have a keen eye. May I ask where you aquied it?

@@jameswahnee435 All over the world but mostly Europe.

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"Packard Merlin" i believe. Keep on people...

That’s why we are all crybabies nowadays

As a kid in the 70s I imagined that every day. Sometimes it was a Corsair, sometimes a P-38, and of course a Mustang.

Different generation. The globalists have done their deed on the USA.

@@billd.6684 same here we used to draw them on our school books I was born in 64 right time to be a kid

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And a cold start ZL1 Camaro!

@@jeffheupel9173 and a two stroke 250 dirt bike rippin around a track

And a V12 Formula 1 passing by

A10,prrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Lol it’s been years since I’ve thought about the ping sound but it is distinctive

Thank you for sharing that. Must've been a special man.

A WW2 fighter pilot with a name that is impossibly cool, raising a fine family and living an exemplary life. And you got to call him Grandpa. Easy to see why you think of him often. Thank you for sharing.

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Oh he knows Jake... he most certainly knows. He's probably near you far more often than you realize.

Thank you to all the young Americans who fought to restore freedom to Europe

@@Scott-gc4pt actually, these are designed, like most other fighter planes of that era, to come down on the 2 front wheels first, then slowly drop down onto the back wheel as they wash off speed. unless they're landing on an aircraft carrier, which is an entirely different scenario and style of landing.

​​@@catey62 carrier landing = thump & pray 😅

@@codyj1162 😂

@@codyj1162 😂😂

@@codyj1162 you mean Carrier landing=mission completed

Agreed 💯 %👍

without the Merlin, the Mustang would've never become legendary.

I couldn't agree more. The only plane I'd care to learn to fly,is this one. It just way,way to cool.

How about a Packard Merlin!

@@garybulwinkle82 it was a Merlin built under licences yes that made some changes but it was still a RR Merlin but so did the RAF to the P-51 Mustang

I know it wasn't the best plane, but I was always in love with the Stuka.

When things are well made, I don’t know why they don’t just keep making them. Quality never goes out of style.

@@foedspaghetti3290 same reason no-one fights a war with a bow and arrow on horseback. Is all armored infantry and drones now.

@@AntilleanConfederation, I did not mean for any form of active service, but as a limited edition for private pilots.

@@foedspaghetti3290 some companies do make old birds out of scratch

My thoughts exactly!!! Just pure power!

No Kenny Loggins fans here? 😆

The way a KZfaq video should be

And NO commercial interruptions!

​@@mikerotch4597 So true man

6 50 cal machine guns open up their own tune would cause more than goosebumps

you know who else got goos bumps

I’m guessing that’s the supercharger whine?

That is the gun barrels! Sounds sweet!

Ya that whine is just bad ass !!!

Scaring victims with sound is a monopoly of rhe Stuka

Sounds better here, without that whine, which I think is from empty gun ports.

@@08jag81 Stukas has propeller driven sirens on them intentionally

@@tanamly I prefer my sound with some P-51

@@08jag81 It's the supercharger whine

Das Dankeschön geht an den Piloten 😉👍🏻

doesn't seem to sound all that good from cockpit though, i bet it would drive many crazy on long flights lol

Outside she screams ever so beautifully earplugs for the pilot... 🤔👍💎✌️🙏

It's the sound of pure testosterone. What this guy wouldn't give to strafe one Nazi supply train.

Is there actually a height limit? Or would it just be very uncomfortable? To fly in a P-51 has always been on my bucket list since I was little. But I am 6’6” as well

@@mattliptak3747 Hi, there was no limit at that time, but it was an impossible squeeze for me and mgmt didn't think it was a good idea in the event of an emergency. Turns out they were right as in the case of 909. RIP.

That P-51C flew up my wooded canyon in NorCal a few years ago. I heard it coming and dashed out to the roof deck and watched it quickly approach. It was probably 500 feet from me. The pilot later told me that he buzzed the home of one of their sponsors. It was an awesome pass. In November 1982 I got 2 rides in a day from Bob Love in his P-51D. At 6 foot 2 I barely fit. When we left Stockton Airport, he headed directly at a hangar full of Warbird people, pulled up and wrapped the plane around the checkerboard water tower and climbed straight up. I couldn't believe how quickly the tower got small. From inside the plane, the engine sounded like a Ford flathead V-8 cruising with straight pipes on. The sound was completely different from what everyone hears on the ground. There was a cloud base and he put the canopy about 10 feet below the clouds. It looked like Star Wars with the clouds above passing at insane speed. I could see us heading at 250 mph toward a low hanging cloud and braced for impact. Nothing! The gray covered us and the temperature dropped 15 degrees in an instant. 2 seconds later we were under the clouds again back to normal temperature. What a lucky day for me.

You said it pal!

@@kimmer6 Your description of that day just made my day, thanks.

It’s Packard merlin .. a bit different

@@MonkPetite still a Merlin, cope.

@@MonkPetite Same thing...just a licensed version.

@@dotdashdotdash Yup still a British engine no matter where its made..:)

100% agree. I live near the Nut Tree Airport, there's 2 P-51s, a P-47 and what I believe is a Mitsubishi A6M? or other radial type Japanese plane that fly out of there. I know which ones they are by sound and when I hear them, I always head to a window or outside to view them. Never gets old!

This is not a Spitfire tho.

Get him to do an interview with that youtube channel Memoirs of ww2 I believe it's called. Something like that

@@northeastrailway.Thank you , Pops passed last year at 96 years old he had bouts of Alzheimer's but i could always bring him back by showing him picture of a mustang. He would talk like he was flying again. He was the Bravest man I ever knew .

They never looked that good off the factory floor. There was a lot of love put into that plane to make it look that way.

@@michaeldose2041 Probably should have said "Sales Room' floor.

@@michaeldose2041 I wouldn't agree with that. The original D and after models with the bubble canopy looked every bit this good and better. This plane here is a two-seater with a longer, more awkward looking cockpit. Wartime models didn't have this and looked more lean. This one is very sharp. Make no mistake. I'm just opposing that they didn't look "that good" from the factory as well. This one has the royal treatment.

@@c2jones What I was referring too was polishing the skin to a mirror finish, the nose paint and the mat black anti glare cowling paint. A lot of time and detail work went into making it a work of art rather than what it looked like when it was new. Yeah, he added a seat. Might as well, it's not like you're going to be loading it up with 9yards of 50cal. You remind me of the classic car guys that fuss and fume over ''everything'' original. The problem is, when it's all said and done the paint never looked that flawless, ''originally'' every knob and button wasn't polished to a mirror finish etc. In other words it looks better than it did new, yet someone will still say yeah but that's not the original water pump. I prefer to look at a piece of art for the thing of beauty that it is. Not the ''commuter'' car that it was when it rolled out of the factory. Many of them are trailered to the ''show''. At least this one still gets flown. It's just a show toy now, and he can bring his friend, what else is it good for?

@@michaeldose2041 With respect, you've made many hasty assessments to go along with your hasty presentation. Firstly, fresh from the factory, these planes had plenty of shine. Some of us may prefer less shine (having nothing to do with that "original" thing at all) just as some do on cars and boats. And, no, regardless the original thing, I prefer the leaner, less elongated profile. The K models were even more aesthetically pleasing to me that the D models. In restored classic cars, I often prefer modifications as it enhances performance, safety, practicality, etc., with little regard for originality. You've made a list of faulty assessments based upon your own experiences. But off the mark here.

The F4U Corsair was another one that was and still is a favorite.

Agreed, agreed and agreed. I was lucky enough to see a dozen or so at Mecca, aka the EAA incredible show every July, both parked and lined up facing the crowd and starting those beautiful Merlin engines. An amazing offshoot of the P-51 is the Lancair IV-P, a 2-seater home built that can fly 300 MPH at 20,000 feet. It's very much inspired by the P-51. I "flew" one around the world in Flight Simulator. Like the real thing it was tricky to fly but amazingly capable.

May he R.I.P. They don't make Patriots like him anymore!

Not saying that what you say isn’t true, however, there is no listing of an Albert Henry Ligons among the ranks of the Tuskegee Airman. Moreover, the obituary listed on Legacy for the same name (Albert H. Ligons Steamboat Springs, CO 88) from March 2010, has no reference to the Tuskegee Airman, nor military service of any kind.

I do not mean to be rude but it needs to be pointed out that no person with that name appears on the roll of the Tuskegee Airmen. Also, they story that they never lost a B-17 is wrong (though often referenced). That was a story of dubious veracity printed in a newspaper during the war; when the news was censored anyway. Actually, a number of bombers were shot down by enemy fighters while being escorted by the Tuskegee airmen. One can view the records and verify that. The T. airmen were good and that is why their story still resonates today. It had been thought before WWII that these people (blacks) were "inferior" and not able to be effective pilots (I hate writing that last sentence, but such is history). In the war, they were as good as any other American pilot and that was enough to vindicate them. Though the Luftwaffe was seriously weakened by the time the Tuskegee Airmen started escort duty they (Luftwaffe) still had some incredible pilots (Gallant, Hartman, Steinhof, etc) and, with the ME-262s, they (Luftwaffe) were triumphant in their individual actions. Such was the speed of the ME-262s that the Mustangs, such as the one pictured here. No way for some bombers under escort not to be shot down.

P-51 had a bell and alarm too... :)

It wasn't the most effective. It was surely one of the best aircrafts during WW2, but the most effective (by real numbers) were the Messerschmitt Bf 109.

Sadly the US Airforce mothballed all the P-47s. Once the jet aged commenced I wonder how many US Airforce pilots would have lived had they been conducting ground support in the P-47 instead of the liquid cooled P-51. There is a reason the Corsair stayed in service so long, the radial engine and survivability.

@@OPFlyFisher304 The P47 and Corsair were more prone to battle damage than the P-51D, but the P-51D was lighter, faster, could fly at higher altitudes, and was more maneuverable, more than negating that disadvantage IMO. Even today P-51Ds are commonly used in air races.

@@geraldscott4302 Ground support missions require one to support the guy on the ground, thus operating at a lower elevation level and thus being more prone to ground fire. ALL prop planes were inferior in Korea. Furthermore the P-47 was more responsible to Air-Superiority in WW2 than the Mustang was. It is a myth the P-47 could not go to Berlin and back, it did. the 56th FG (highest kills of all 8th AF FGs)opted to keep P-47s instead of converting to Packard powered P-51s.

@@mekwall P-47s cleared the skies of Western Europe. Rall from the Famous JG 52 didn't last too long on the Western Front when he met US pilots flying P-47s. He was certainly welcomed to Thunder Dome in a hurry. He actually credits this wounding and shoot down to saving his life.

F-35 could shoot them down.

Don't be humble. Its true.

I got 2 rides in Bob Love's P-51D out of Livermore, Calif. That was in November of 1982. I can still smell that exhaust when he started it up. The engine sounded like a Ford flathead V-8 with straight pipes on it from inside the cockpit. It didn't sound like it was running very fast and sounded lightly loaded. It sounded absolutely nothing like what you hear from the ground. That was a day in my life ranked in the top 5 awesome events in my 70+ years.

A Packard engine 😉 The Packard Merlin engine was different from the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine.

The Corsair is one of my all time favorites!