If a real gun, not just a cover with holes, is in the port does the plane whistle.

@@08jag81 Yes, if a real gun is in there it shall make a higher pitched whistle, if there is no gun then a lower pitched whistle. If taped up it won’t whistle.

I agree

I agree, the slick whistle is so pleasing to hear)))))

I couldn't agree more.👍👍👍

@@joebutlersnr7017 "Plane porn" as a friend of mine calls it!

Lol so true ngl

Same lol

I agree, it just sounds so good

I would have to argue for the Vulcan howl

Yes comes second two the sound of that RR Merlin engine.

I prefer the whine - n' - whistle of the DB 605 engine of the Me - 109 as it whooshes gracefully by like a powerful tempest! 🥰🥰🥰

Or the AT's BRRRT

Messerschmitt

@@neilward5968 and to be exact...a ME-109, probably a G or a K...at that time period of 1944-45

I agree, definitely one of the most elegant aircraft

@Hoa Tattis The Spitfire is elegant but the Mustang is it for me :)

@Hoa Tattis You obviously know nothing about air resistance !! Try building an airplane that looks like an ELEPHANT !!!

In November 1982, Bob Love flew me in twice in a single day in his P-51D. Looking back 40 years, it was a memory worth treasuring. I have rerun the P-51 scenes many times in Empire of the Sun. In 1958, you could buy a surplus Mustang with about 50 hours on the airframe for between $1100 and $1300 on government auctions. My dad said NO. 70 gallons of fuel per hour and no place to keep it.

@@kimmer6 Oh, what a shame your Dad said no. They're art.

Interesting. I would think that the "deeper" inboard gun means that the air space in it is larger than the other two, so that the whistle is a lower pitch than the others, which have a much higher pitch. Again, think of the coke bottle experiment where when you blow into an empty bottle versus what that is partially filled, the empty has a much lower pitch, or resonant frequency. From which I would conclude the inboard tube's resonant frequency is much more audible than the higher pitch frequencies of the mid- and outboard gun tubes. At some point, the tubes' very shallow depths don't resonate at all.

neat, answered my lingering question of why other American fighters, P47 my favorite WWII fighter for example, dont whistle.

actually just found a different video of an F4U corsair whistling but with a much deeper sound and wanted to see if you know why it whistles differently?

@@pixelation782 look up videos of the P-47 Tallahassee Lassie. She still has all of her ducting and the turbo charger intact. Most flightworthy P-47s have the ducting bypassed or removed and the turbo is almost never used due to the complexity and difficulty of repair. You will hear the turbo sometimes with Lassie but not bypassing the intercooler ducts also changes the exhaust sound a lot.

@@pixelation782unlike the 51, the F4U whistle was caused by the intake ports of the leading edge of the wings.

Gun barrels only

Both beautiful planes but I love the elegance of it’s inverted gull wing design combined with brute force that the Corsair possesses.

Amen! The F-4U with its inverted gull wings, is a very unmistakably unique aircraft.

I watched a video on the F-4U Corsair a while back. They said the whistle on it comes from the oil coolers mounted in the wing next to the fuselage.

They are both my favorites with spitfire just behind. Then the mosquito. Whats neyter than two merlins

@Hoa Tattis As you’ve said. To each their own. It was faster than the P-51 at top speed by about 10 knots. The P-51 would cruise much faster by nearly 100 knots and was definitely more maneuverable. But their are many Corsair aces that would disagree with you.

I agree, absolutely wonderful

@@IrisAviation91 Unless you're a German tank commander in 1944

Amen to that!!

I used to have a Huey fly by wake up sound!!!

Sho U right!!!

No problem at all!

If it was 'all American' it would have an Allison engine in it.

One such B-17 is now stationed in Michigan, near Detroit. She's called the YANKEE LADY ! One of the best restored and airworthy B-17's to exist..

Bullshit, so why not on other Merlin powered aircraft Maestro?

@@Slaktrax Maestro? No No No Technician. 1st take a breath buddy you seem real dam up tight? Ever been to Reno? Most of the racing 51's have no machine gun ports so no screaming banshees or howl upon banking, turns etc. However you do still hear a singing whine not a howling from the heavens. It's the supercharger impellers. If you've ever spun one up on a test bench you'll never forget it. Almost like a skill saw just as the cut finishes you hear a gear winging. V12 super Chargers with short stack exhaust just infront of it you probably won't hear unless the aircrafts centerline has a big ass hole in it. Or maybe a radiator intake/exhaust ports. But you gotta remember anyone slightly hard of hearing will never hear it unless it dam near cut your hair coming over. So it's both only one is loud as hell and the other isn't. Grab a cone bearing, slip it over your fingers and use an air blower to make'er sing you'll see. (Just don't do it with a plastic cage type it'll fuck ya up when she comes apart.)

@@warrenchambers4819 Thank you for your comment. When I was a teenager, I was told that it was the supercharger whistling. Watching this video made me think I was told incorrectly. Sounds like both things can produce the whistling sound.

@@warrenchambers4819 You can hear the SC whine in the non gun port Old Crow pass in this video. Its more subtle than the Gun port howl.

@@Slaktrax you can also hear a slight supercharger whistle at Spitfires and more prominent at DB 605 engine of Bf 109.

Watched one fly over the coast of diver. Time warp!

The p-51 and the Spitfire both have the Rolls Royce Merlin engine.

It's cos it has a Spit or Hurry RR Merlin in it.

I agree, absolutely legendary

I would agree with the Spitfire, but the P-47 and the F6F were both better than the Mustang.

No problem!

Thank you :)

No problem!

Isn’t that the incident at Duxford if I am not mistaken? Those gun ports act as pretty good stall indicators

No problem!

@@IrisAviation91 👍

Yes technically. But not like the mustang, the mustangs super-charger and gun port whistles make it make a distinctive sound.

Same, sounds amazing!

@@IrisAviation91 nice, indeed!

Here it is: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rK1yl6lilZ--YH0.html

Sorry, but you're wrong - it's definitely the gun ports. Guess why no B or C model whistles!

But the superchargers whistle is by far not as loud as the gunports whistle!

Henry Ford didn't design the P-51.

So did I. I just thought it was the whine of the super-charger you heard over the top of that Packard V-1650 roar. Either way, it's still a pretty sound!

It is a not strange because the whistling sound of the F4U came from the embedded radiators at the root of the wings. What a shame that I never saw the Corsair flying....

Wonderful nickname :)

F4U: Hey there

Quite possibly...

I think so too, possibly racers converted into warbirds without the reinstallation of gun ports.

Supercharger would whistle all the time, but p51 whistle only when high aoa is applied

The size of the gun ports are so small and therefore would yield a neglegiable effect to the stalling characteristics of the mustang, maybe only altering behaviour slightly.

The Zero was pretty much a 2nd rate aircraft by 1944, as the F6 Hellcat shot down scores of them at the Great Marianas Turkey shoot and before then as well. And the P-51 was superior to the F6. A The FW 190 D(ora) 13 was the best German fighter and had almost the equivalent speed as a Mustang. While the Me-109K had a faster climb rate than both. So if the skill of pilots were equal....this would be a hard call. Personally I like the 20mm cannons as an armament. Better than MG's. And I would take the FW over the ME as the FW was a much sturdier plane and could take more hits.

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