I have heard that a p51 mustang broke the soundbarrier in a violent dive.. Anyone is this a fact or is this just a rumour?

Can you do a video for the a1 skyraider from the veitnam war in the roll of a cas prop aircraft

Is that Music for a forgotten future playing behind Simon in the intro? Clearing that would have to be expensive

Has the channel ever done a video on the Brooklyn Bridge inclusive of its updates and maintenance?

North American wasn't completely new to the fighter game. Before they were Norrh American, they were a company called Fokker. They were the American branch & spun off from the Dutch company.

That's saddening news, I can only say thank you to him and his fellow pilots. The shear aggression and bravery of those young flyers was desperately needed by the Allies at that time, they took the War straight into the Nazi's front garden. They even stopped camouflaging their 'Stangs later in the war, polishing them to a highly visible aluminium sheen to goad the Luftwaffe to come up and fight. We will never see a generation like them again. RIP.

Sad to hear. Have a model of his old crow fighter and have many of his interviews in magazines. He was always a fantastic interview and I learned a great deal from that cool old gent. Very classy and humble man.

@@waynesimpson2074 No that was not to goad the Luftwaffe to come up. It was to show the bomber crews that they were on their way. Germans had cammed planes and the Brits only had cammed planes and there had been too many friendly fire incidents.

I've heard of Old Crow. Cool to know who flew it.

O7 Colonel. Rest easy.

A-10 has caused lots of friendly fire incidents despite its reputation.

@@noreply-7069 All close air support does. A-10 Thunderbolt II was named for the best Fighter/Bomber the USAAF had the P47 Thunderbolt.

Only the Mustang has less Blue on Blue.

The OG freedom dispenser.

​@@Bidimus1 im sprry but whats your source? Because the F16 takes the roll of the US's best CAS aircraft currently. The F111 was the best during the Gulf war. The A10 was never that good and the fact its being replaced by a crop duster proves this

Some are scaled down models that are about 2/3 the size and perfrom amazing... ask if it's a real one and you may get a ride... in the US they have awesome programs for pilots to take kiddos up for free to gain hours etc

I do especially love the sound the P51 makes.

"Another Plane, I think it's a Spitfire", ?????????? How can you not know if it is a Spitfire, one of the most recognisable aircraft on the planet?

Sophisticated growl of the Merlin

Springbank! And you're right, there's a Spitfire out here too.

For sure man I’m right with you. Wish it had a scarier name, mosquitos are dangerous but don’t conjure images of terror the way the aircraft did

Canadian Spruce I believe ?

When operating at low altitudes, teh Mosquito would have been a far superior design using two Allison V12s (lighter, lower drag, more HP, more fuel efficient, more reliable, easier to manufacture and maintain).

Shit. Canadian? Geneva wants to know your location.... 😂

​@@wtbanation6268 mosquitos have killed more humans than any creature in history. Malaria is a bitch. To me at least mosquito is a scary name

Nope read the story on the Packard built licensed Merlin engines! Us Americans took it, simplified it AND mass fkn produced it=winning! 😎 And at low altitude as others have said the A-36 kicked ass!

@@4literv6- ...and if the Brits didn't let Packard build the Merlin, the P-51 would have had what? Packard built Alison engines?

​@@4literv6Packard improved it, sure, and mass produced it. Still a Brit engine though. We would have been stuck with the Allison otherwise.

We did what we always do. They gave us a solid engine, we took a look at it and slapped a turbocharger on it for MOAR. If you go through WW2 planes more than a few times our solution was just to strap a bigger engine on it. Kinda amusing but does not take away from the joint effort to make the P51 a monster.

@@GankbotShuk Please look up the Merlin engine development when you get a moment, its a great way to spend your time. The Merlin had a supercharger not a turbocharger. In fact it morphed into a 2 speed, 2 stage supercharged engine with outstanding performance and efficiency which owed a great deal to the supply of high octane fuel from the USA. The Packard built Merlins were superior to the Rolls Royce units due to improved pressurized Bendix carbs, excellent main bearings using improved US metalurgy and unhindered( by Nazi bombing) production runs. Commonality between different RR engineered parts was rare whereas the US war machine could school Heinz on rapid, high volume, mass produced, production engineering; hence the P51 gaining the nick-name Spam Can.

Sorry to say but you are just straight up wrong. The Spitfire was built in much higher numbers (around 5000 more) and at least during the battle of Britain it is true that the Hurricane got more kills than the Spitfire but the thing is there were WAY more Hurricanes compared to Spitfires and even then their kill ratios were about the same. Also I'm pretty sure Hurricanes were often sent after the bombers and Spitfires after the fighters which just goes to show what plane was better at dealing with the enemy fighters. Though I will say obviously it was important to stop all the Axis planes not just the bombers or fighters but all types.

@@darkraven8103 So 5000 more Spitfires were built, but there were "WAY more hurricanes"? Not being a smart ass but im confused.

My Uncle who flew them in WW2 Swore by them. He loved them until he passed.

And the p fifty one finished it

@@JC-fz2pv Dude surely you are not that dumb. What I mean is during the battle of Britain there were more Hurricanes compared to Spitfires but ultimately by the end of the war around 5k more Spitfires were built compared to the Hurricane. (roughly 20k Spitfires vs 15k Hurricanes)

I guess it's a matter of preference. As a boy, all my dad's friends said the Corsair was the best plane we had during the entire war. Years later, though, I met a pilot who said the Lightning was (he flew one). 😁

My grandfather was a mechanic on both 47’s and 51’s. He said much the same about the planes.

I personally favor the Corsair as well, rugged as the P-47, but one of the only planes that could outfly the Ki-84. The fact that they were still being built into the 50s should tell ya something.

@@jeffmcdonald4225 -"As a boy, all my dad's friends said the Corsair was the best plane we had during the entire war. Years later, though, I met a pilot who said the Lightning was (he flew one). " I think this just goes to show that many times the correct answer is just "it depends". It depends on the mission, the overall conditions, the opponents you expect to be facing, etc. I think difficulty also played a role. The Corsair and the P 51 were quite difficult to fly (or so I've heard, take this with a huge grain of salt), while something like the Hellcat or even the Yak 3 was more beginner friendly. Important when you have new recruits.

​@@darthmarvin247the Corsair, though a beautiful and capable aircraft, was, I believe, called "The Ensign Killer" because of how difficult it was to fly and especially land.

the engine gave the performance, what the Americans gave was the detachable fuel tanks which led to such an increase in range it was a cheat code.

With the Allison engine, the P-51 was the single fastest fighter of WW2. down low, no other fighter could catch it. Compared to the Merlin, the Allison was $6k cheaper, 300lb lighter, more fuel efficient, had fewer parts, was easier to maintain and more reliable, was smaller and lower drag, and was putting out more than 1800HP in 1942, and over 2200HP by 1944. The Mustang flew to Berlin with the Allison (doing Recon) before the P-51B was ever ready. The P-51 with Allison was the first allied fighter plane to enter German airspace in WW2, and operated with the RAF for a full year prior to the P-47 showing up, and the RAF only lost 8 Allison Mustangs to enemy fire in its first 18months of combat. The P-38 proved that with a proper high altitude forced induction system, the Allison was a far more powerful engine than the Merlin at high altitude, which is why they never put Merlins in the P-38 (they did think about it, but the studies quickly showed it was a waste of time to try, as the airplane would be slower and less fuel efficient).

@@ratchet2505 It is the Mustangs internal fuel that is incredible, anything can carry drop tanks.

Bladder tank under the pilot seat gave it even more range. #P 51D

@@SoloRenegadethe first sentence is incorrect

Not such a great irony if you think the dutch (fokker planes included) were fighting against the german in WWII

And Russians. P-35 and P-47 along with a lot of our helicopters.

I was told by Greg’s airplanes and others. No possibility of finding the truth here on this channel. Boiler plate lobster, that’s all timing is good for

@@steveperreira5850 LOL, take Greg's info with a grain of salt.

@@steveperreira5850 Yes and take Gregs with a cup of Epson Salts

Capt. Eric Brown said of the Corsair. A mixture of the Good the Mediocre and the Bad.

lets start with the spitfire with a not packard made under license merlin engine.

@@adelewalsh1377 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fpOmlNKe3Zm2ZGw.html is Simon’s Spitfire video. Now can I please be excited about the Mustang video?

@@adelewalsh1377 Spitfire is spitfire, moar Mustang!

I'd like a F4U Corsair video.

@@mwdouglas3794 You’re welcome to start the campaign. I’ve been in these comments for a few years asking for a Mustang video, either the car or the plane who I love equally.

yes, the P-47 is overrated, the P-51 is legit superior in so many ways it's not even funny.

@@SoloRenegade - I would dare say you have it backwards. The P-51 is overrated and the P-47 doesn't get the recognition it deserves. While the P-51 is superior in many ways, it is also INFERIOR is many ways as well, such as durability and firepower. Unfortunately for Republic, the P-47 was much more expensive to produce than the P-51 Mustang and in a war of attrition, numbers wins.

@@SoloRenegade nonsense….the thunderbolt was favored by most of the pilots in Europe.

@@cutl00senc Not true. Only ETO MoH was a P-51. Zemke hated it, but didn't complain and developed ways to make it work anyways. Many P-47 commanders switched to the P-51 first chance they got. P-38 pilots in PTO got switched to the P-47 and wanted their P-38 back and complained until they did get their P-38 back. A-36 pilots preferred it over the P-47, and fought tooth and nail to avoid getting the P-47. After WW2 the P-47 fell out of favor rather quickly. USA gave them away and few nations really used them. P-51 was faster at all altitudes, faster climb rate, more maneuverable, faster in a dive, longer range, used half the fuel for a any given distance flown, could use shorter airfields closer to teh front lines, were half the price, consumed half the raw material, took less time to produce, took far fewer man hours of maintenance between missions, and were doing CAS, fighter sweeps and recon for a full year in ETO prior to the P-47's first ever combat mission. And the range of weapons the P-51 used was staggering.

The F4U Corsair that shot down a Mustang in a dog fight enters chat.

I swear, that name is so baller. And I'm old as hell, so I don't usually use that term. Thank you for the great interjection of personal experience. Really cool that you lived with a legend.

Wow, great stuff. Thanks for posting.

It should also be said that the British were so bad at designing Navy aircraft that they still used biplanes in ww2. Then they got their hands on all the Wildcats, Hellcats, and Corsairs (the Brits cracked the code on how to make it a proper carrier fighter btw), and they LOVED all of them. They tried adapting the Spitfire for carrier action, but it didnt work hardly at all.

@@davidmacy411 They hate to admit it, but US saved all of the world's free nations

Exactly. The original Allison Mustang was almost rejected when it arrived in England. Even the US Air Corp rejected it as a fighter, re-bagded as A-36 Apache, and restricted it to ground attack. Even adding dive brakes. The Brits made the Mustang the plane it became. From the Merlin to the bubble top canopies (yes a British design incorporated by the US)

I think the P51 was designed from scratch to use Allison or Merlin (one of the first airfames was set aside for this) though only Allison's were available . Merlins were in P40's as well. For fun watch kzfaq.info/get/bejne/esmbZtyjlq-3lKc.html how North American came to be (spoiler it was Fokker USA mostly )

@@Bidimus1 the Mustang was built with just the Allison and the Merlin was an after thought by the British. The Brits contracted North American to build a new fighter loosely based on the P-40 and it was built with the Allison. When it arrived overseas, the brits found in underpowered and had poor high altitude performance. It was almost REJECTED until they said "what if....) and the Merlin Mustang was born. Packard was immediately contracted to build the Merlin. It's first engine was shipped to England to be examined by Rolls Royce. Expecting to find an inferior engine because they believed it wasn't possible to build a Merlin in an assembly line, soon discovered that Packard had actually IMPROVED the Merlin. Yes, some P-40s were Merlin powered and those were considered to be almost equal to the Merlin Mustang. Sadly, the government earmarked the Packard Merlin strictly for Mustangs. The poor preforming Allison Mustangs were re-bagded as the A-36 Apache and were assigned strictly to a ground attack platform. They were even modified with dive brakes. So no, the Mustang was never introduced with one or the other, just the Allison. Pure luck that someone by chance, tossed a Merlin in one. BTW, bubble canopies were also adapted from the British

@@ghostinchains664 they asked for the P-40, but almost rejected the obviously better P-51? That sound odd

@@rodrigorincongarcia771 they already had the Tomahawk. They wanted North American to IMPROVE the design into a new fighter which led to the Mustang. But when the RAF received the Mustang with the allison, they determined it was no better than what they already had. An RAF test pilot suggested they replace the allison (same engine used by the Tomahawk) with a Merlin and that led to Packard licensing the Merlin. The US had no interest or input into the Mustang program. What they had on inventory with the allison was re-badged the A-36 apache, added air brakes and used it as a ground attack platform. Curtis started using the Merlin in P-40s until the government earmarked all Merlins for mustangs. P-40D I believe are the Merlin Tomahawks. Everything after were Allison. The P-40 Merlin was proven to ALMOST equal the mustang's performance but was still outdated. The bubble canopy was also a British design

They were both car companies at that time, the Rolls Royce aviation division was not spun-off from it's parent until the 1960's.

The Americans also insisted on fitting a pressure carburettor which finally allowed the engine to keep working upside down and in negative gravity.

@@philiphumphrey1548 If that was the Speed Density Carburettor then it was originally a R/R -S/U carburettor

No that was Ford NOT Packard rUBBISH ALL IMPROVEMENT S APPROVED BY r/r PACKARD PRODUCTION ONLY.

@@jacktattis Yes, Ford UK were making the Merlin before Packard was approached.

Came here to say this.

Not remotely true. You can read the USAAF test report of the P-51A and it was far superior. The P-40 is underrated, but it was no match for the P-51. With the Allison engine, the P-51 was the single fastest fighter of WW2. down low, no other fighter could catch it, not even a Merlin Mustang. Compared to the Merlin, the Allison was $6k cheaper, 300lb lighter, more fuel efficient, had fewer parts, was easier to maintain and more reliable, was smaller and lower drag, and was putting out more than 1800HP in 1942, and over 2200HP by 1944. The Mustang flew to Berlin with the Allison (doing Recon) before the P-51B was ever ready. The P-51 with Allison was the first allied fighter plane to enter German airspace in WW2, and operated with the RAF for a full year prior to the P-47 showing up, and the RAF only lost 8 Allison Mustangs to enemy fire in its first 18months of combat as a ground attack fighter. The A-36 was the single best dive bomber of WW2, and the ONLY Allied aircraft in all of WW2 allowed to perform Danger Close bomb drops to troops in contact due to its superior accuracy in the dive. The P-38 proved that with a proper high altitude forced induction system, the Allison was a far more powerful engine than the Merlin at high altitude, which is why they never put Merlins in the P-38 (they did think about it, but the studies quickly showed it was a waste of time to try, as the airplane would be slower and less fuel efficient).

The Merlin was early on considered a potential engine for the Mustang. Even before the first one flew, an agreement had been made with Packard, who was tooling up to build the Merlin in the US. At the time the P-51 was being designed, it was not yet clear how future engine development would go, so NAA was always looking out for better engines.

@@SoloRenegade I had the pleasure of watching both a p40 and p51 doing low passes at a small airshow in Maine. They started close in trail, but after about 5 evolutions (high speed pass followed by a climb, then reverse direction and dive into another high speed pass, repeat. A chandelle essentially) the mustang was a full evolution ahead of the p40, both going full out on their passes. It really put the. Increase of aircraft performance Between those two models in high contrast.

@@Sakai070 The P-40 is actually quite a beast below 15k ft. I've talked to many pilots and mechanics of the P-40, P-51, etc. And I've talked to many engineers who also redesign parts and engines for them. The Allison is their preferred engine, and the P-40 and p-51 are both great designs according to them. The flight test report by the USAAF of the prototype P-51 was very good, with only the P-40 having a chance against it below 15k ft (and the test report looked at multiple different prominent US fighters in comparison). The P-40 flight test data people cite is based upon the XP-40 at only 1000HP, and yet it was only 10mph slower than the "mighty" P-47. The P-40A had 1400HP. And reports from both US and RAF generals reported RAF and US pilots were pushing their P-51 and P-40 Allison engines to 72-75" MAP, and so Allison tested their engines at 70" MAP and got 1800HP for over 20min continuously and suffered no damage to the engine. This when the engines were only approved for 56" MAP and 1400HP officially. Yet no P-51 nor P-40 has EVER been flight tested at 1800HP with an allison engine. And by 1944, the Allison engine was putting out 2200HP at 70" MAP. Again, No P-40 nor P-51 was EVER flight tested at 2200HP with an Allison engine. All P-51 Allison flight tests were done at 1400HP and no more, and P-40 data is based upon only 1000HP. These two airplanes were FAR more capable than stated, with the 2200HP P-40N going 410mph in level flight. Who knows how fast the P-51A was going in level flight on 2200HP. The P-51B/C/D/K were only getting 1600HP with the Merlin, which was a 300lb heavier engine and a larger less aerodynamic engine too, yet the official top speed with the Merlin is something like 445mph. The Allison P-51s were said to be THE fastest single engine fighters of WW2, and could evade any attackers simply by running away if need be, but no one has ever tested how fast they were actually going at those power levels. The problem with the P-40 was it was designed before the NACA drag study was conducted, and many mistakes in its design were made. North American (NA) learned from the NACA testing and worked closely with NACA on the laminar flow wing. In fact, it was NACA that convinced NA to use it on the P-51. NA had an entire non-laminar flow wing design ready incase the laminar flow wing didn't end up working, as their contract with the RAF was conditional on a fixed timeline, and they couldn't risk the laminar flow wing failing. So they had an entire backup wing with traditional airfoils ready, but the laminar flow wing worked in testing (50% lower drag than any comparable wing ever designed up to that point) and they never used the backup. But I have no records of that wing design, which airfoil they used, etc. NA knew that to fix the problems with the P-40 design meant a new fuselage and a new wing, so no point in trying to fix something and best to go clean sheet. Edgar Schmued, the lead engineer, had been working on the P-51 concept design for many years prior to the RAF reaching out to NA for more P-40s, and so now he had his chance to make it real, but many of its design elements had actually already been worked out in advance and NA was waiting for their chance to make a fighter of their own.

Hmmmm idk, don't get me wrong absolutely awesome plane but the Corsair. And furthermore a Corsair shot down a Mustang in air to air combat. Corsair was faster, better climb rate, 600 more HP, slower stall speed, tighter turn radius (no flaps) substantially tighter turn radius with flaps and double the payload.

@@15wylee Only the Post war Corsair was faster and had a better climb rate tighter turn Eric Brown has said the Corsair was as manoeuvrable as a bus

it hampered the germans. they frequently mention mistaking ponies for 109s

Yeah but I understand the Shelby Cobra had a terrible combat record over Europe

I'm a F6F fan!

Yes. Those are my 2 favorite. BF-109 was great too.

Personally, I like the P-38.

My favorite is the P-38, but the P-51 is definitely in my top 5 WW2 aircraft.

Personally I preferred the Corsair, but the Mustang was a more well-rounded airplane.

True.... the P51 hastened Germany's defeat, the F4 wild cat & variants, SBD Dauntless in the Pacfic,, Hawker Hurricane & P47 stemmed the tide of the axis when the Allies did not have overwhelming numbers, quality, and pilot training/experience advantages

That is denigrating your own air-force USMC ate you out and the Aussies had to feed them as well.

@@jacktattis Stating the facts: in mid 1942 when the enemy of the day were in the Coral Sea and the Solomon Islands our guys were all in Europe. It was all America in this part of the world fighting for us. I'd say they earned their food a million times over

@@jollyroger1009 Not here in Australia they did not. Voracious in he extreme Our food they got the best . And never paid.

And lots of P40's kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ephilN17xsiuYGg.html Rex Hanger P40 part 2 Commonwealth Forces SW Pacific

+1 on this. Never, ever heard before that the P51 was a Curtis design and that NAA purchased the design....

Yeah, no idea where they got that but they need to correct it.

Because the P-51 was not a Curtiss design. North American was forced to evaluate the Curtiss failed design. North American ended up using nothing from Curtiss, as the P-51 concept had already been drawn up and slowly refined by Edgar Schmeud for years prior.

It wasn't. NAA was only supposed to build more P-40s. When they saw the blueprints they basically said, "nah, we can do better than this." And they did.

The fuselage tank wasn't impossible to fight with-- just really, really tricky. Bud Anderson, may he rest in peace, recounted an occasion in his book when he forgot to burn the fuel out of it and got into a fight. He kept a handle on it, but he never did it again!

the Bubble canopy was slower than the bird cage, but the improved visibility was deemed worth the loss of performance.

Packard Merlin

Wrong. The RAF used the MkI and MKII Mustangs beofre the A-36 came along. And the P-51 and P-51A also preceded the A-36. With the Allison engine, the P-51 was the single fastest fighter of WW2. down low, no other fighter could catch it, not even a Merlin Mustang. Compared to the Merlin, the Allison was $6k cheaper, 300lb lighter, more fuel efficient, had fewer parts, was easier to maintain and more reliable, was smaller and lower drag, and was putting out more than 1800HP in 1942, and over 2200HP by 1944. The Mustang flew to Berlin with the Allison (doing Recon) before the P-51B was ever ready. The P-51 with Allison was the first allied fighter plane to enter German airspace in WW2, and operated with the RAF for a full year prior to the P-47 showing up, and the RAF only lost 8 Allison Mustangs to enemy fire in its first 18months of combat as a ground attack fighter. The A-36 was the single best dive bomber of WW2, and the ONLY Allied aircraft in all of WW2 allowed to perform Danger Close bomb drops to troops in contact due to its superior accuracy in the dive. The P-38 proved that with a proper high altitude forced induction system, the Allison was a far more powerful engine than the Merlin at high altitude, which is why they never put Merlins in the P-38 (they did think about it, but the studies quickly showed it was a waste of time to try, as the airplane would be slower and less fuel efficient).

Simon is a puffy exaggerator, so seek the truth elsewhere, Such as Greg’s airplanes

No sorry it was the Hurricane and Spitfire which flew against the Best of the Luftwaffe. The Germans had been in Spain honing their skills.

Few are more beautiful and aerobatic than the Spitfire.

I rode in Bob Love's P-51D twice in November 1982. Unforgettable! What struck me was that the engine sound inside the cockpit nowhere near what a Mustang sounds like from the ground. It sounds like an old flathead V-8 Ford dune buggy with no mufflers. And from the cockpit, the wings look pathetically short. An optical illusion? This plane changed hands several times since and flew as Miss Bardahl in the last Reno Air Races. It was raced in the same paint scheme and name in the 1960's. I love P-51's.

BF110s were still used in the bomber intercept role for a bit after that, but frankly, its days were already numbered by that point. However, in the Pacific the Mustang really wasn't as useful as the air war was fought mostly with aircraft who had to worry about the fact that their runway moved. The F-6F Hellcat probably had a greater effect in the Pacific than the Mustang did as it scored more victories over Japanese aircraft, flew for longer (it entered service late 1942 while the P-51D came in late 1944), and was better able to take a hit from Japanese ground fire. Attempts were made to make a Carrier version of the Mustang, but those attempts fell flat, especially since by that point if there was a fleet carrier in need of fighters, there were more than enough Hellcats to fill the role.

There’s a compelling argument that this is a retroactive ass covering by the USAAF when they didn’t use P-47s for escorts when they WERE capable of escorting bombers into the heart of Germany.

In 2018, the B-17, B-24, and B-25 showed up at Buchanan Field in Concord, California along with an A-D Skyraider. This was a summer Warbird Weekend held every June. I was in the shower getting ready to go to the airfield after hearing radial engines flying around all morning. I had the window open and heard a P-51 approaching my street rapidly. With no time to lose at all, I darted out to the roof deck buck naked dripping wet in time to watch the P-51 pass up our street maybe 500 feet away just above the treeline behind the house across the street. I did jumping jacks out of pure joy and saw the fellow in the back seat looking at me as it passed. Lets just say the pass was lower than regulations allowed but worth every broken rule. Later I went to the airfield and spoke to the pilot gushing praise all over him for my private flyby. He laughed and said that the fellow who paid for the Mustang ride mentioned some goofy guy jumping naked on the roof deck. The plane was named Toulouse Nuts. Had I delayed 3 seconds more, the Mustang would have already passed. The sound was magnificent! The Mustang rides were booked so I sent my son and daughter in law up in the Skyraider for their ride.

I think it's an interesting factoid that after the B-17 and B-24 the P-47 dropped the highest tonnage of bombs in the European theater of all American planes.

We didn't have 130 octane gasoline. What we had was 100/130 which was 100 octane gasoline with a very high concentration of Tetra Ethyl Lead. But it would perform as 100 octane with a lean mixture and theoretically perform as 130 octane when ran with a rich mixture.

Either the P 51 or the P 47 could have won the war in Europe without the other. As you well know, I think you know, the P 47 had the range, but the army screwed up. See Greg’s airplanes, P 47 Series , on range.

The Jumo lasted less than 100 flight hours. It was garbage.

In before people start yelling.

I love how we ignore the hurricane, hellcat, wildcat etcetera that actually did all the work. All so the beauty pageant P-51 could show up for the awards ceremony after all the hard work was done😊

​@dalebob9364 don't forget the p38! the plane that shot down yamamoto To be fair p51 Was doing work in it's earlier iterations. But won the war is a bit of streeetchex

please, no!

That merlin engine. That thing was a beast

3 times in 10 seconds! Tomahawk is a familiar American hook, Warthawk is completely unfamiliar unless you are a warbird buff. His brain slipped.

Tomahawk does equal warhawk as you proved. ALL P-40 in US service were Warhawks, and so they were the same as Tomahawks.

Well the thing is, in many ways the M4 & P-51 were better than their axis counterparts, but not in the ways we see it. An M4 had the highest survivability of any tank in ww2, especially late war ones. The tank was easily repaired. Its 75mm gun was not the best anti-tank cannon out there, but it Was the best anti-anything not a tank for its size. Guess what infantry encounter the most? Other infantry, machine guns, bunkers, you name it. In that way the M4 was excellent. And the same goes for the P-51. The D model had excellent visibility, it had great high altitude performance, it had good survivability for its pilot, it could fly to berlin & back and have fuel to spare. Its guns would shred & ignite any fighter it touches, the guns had ALOT of ammo. It was not as manouverable as a Late BF 109...but it was manouverable enough. Its endurance defeated it in every way. It had great landing specs, it could be easily serviced. Sure the BF109 & FW190 had 20mm guns, but it didnt matter in fighter combat as who landed the first hits won. The 30mm MK was a devestating weapon vs bombers, but in fighter combat it was more of a hinderance than an advantage. On paper, gun/armor? sure the german tanks were better. Manouverability and guns? Sure the Axis aircraft were better....in theory. And in practice other specs is what made the M4&P-51 prevail.

As said in the vid: the industrial might of the US would be critical in winning the war. It was putting together military equipment that was "good enough" in massive quantities that was the critically important contribution. And the Japanese shortened the war drastically one December morning with the mistake of attacking Pearl Harbour. With the US only providing goods the allied forced would still have won, just taken even longer. By attacking Pearl the Japanese brought the US fully into the war as a combatant.

No the P-47 was a tank with wings. You couldn't shoot one down.

The 76mm was designed to generate thick armour. It was a British 17 pounder designed in response to the very thick armour on German tanks. The 75 mm was a great all purpose gun. Much better than the earlier 2 pounder or 40mm gun. Fitted into earlier British tanks. Due to flawed doctrine. The 2 pounder didn't have an HE shell. Only anti armour solid shot. Even the later 75mm British gune only had solid shot too. So the US 75mm HE issued with the M3 Grant tanks. To the British 8th Army, we're adopted. Eventually, the British did produce HE shells for these and the 6 pounder or 57mm anti tank guns.these were very effective weapons. The US also used these. Theirs had longer barrels and so a slightly better generating performance then those in British service. These were also fitted into the Mosquito, but the 60-pound rockets were found to be more effective.

Finally, someone who actually knows the P-51 barely showed up for the last year! All the p-40s and wildcats, hellcats, and the hawker hurricane did all the work and the P-51 pageant princess showed up for the awards ceremony🎉

Don't forget the p38 to. And I love the jug .Don't get me wrong

P-51 was the F-22, F4U was teh F-35. F4U was amazing, but the P-51 was the better dive bomber, better high altitude fighter, longer ranged fighter, carrier capable if need be, multirole ground attacker, ertc. F4U was tougher, carrier capable, carried night hunting radar, etc. P-51 was faster too.

the first P-51 to fly over Berlin was actually an Allison V12 powered low level recon plane.

Göring caused the Deutsch to lose the war to begin with , Adolf Hitler replaced a competent air Marshall with him😢

@@gerryroush8391 Hitler only fired Goering in the final days of the War. The Luftwaffe chief tried to grab power since the Fuhrer was in Berlin surrounded by the Red Army.

That's right.The air war in WW2 was a war of attrition. Even before the USA seriously entered the war in 1942, the RAF has the advantage of training away from the conflict in USA, Canada and South Africa. In Germany, nowhere was safe. The P41 was the US aircraft that killed many of the Luftwaffe's experiences pilots. The P51 didn't enter the war until December 1943. It had different rules of engagement from the P41. They were allowed to give chase and kill the enemy instead of merely driving them away. The Luftwaffe ran out of good pilots.

@@thewrongbike7709 TF is a P41?

I believe you're somewhat correct, but the supposed quote from Hermann Göring to the effect that when he saw P-51s flying over Berlin he knew the war was over definitely had some truth to it. When the P51 came online in force, bomber losses plummeted and German interceptor shoot-downs dramatically increased.

@@gregkelly2145 The biggest change was General Dolittle. He changed the strategy from "Bomb Germany" to Destroy the Luftwaffe". Before that the escort pilot weren't encouraged to chase and shoot down fighters. Also, the P47 was not originally provided with drop tanks. The P47 COULD and did fly to Berlin and back. Its just that I took a shit ton of fuel to do it. When the P51 arrived in numbers the P41 was retasked to ground attach roles. The 47 and 51 fought at different times to different rules. I'm not saying that the P47 was a better aircraft. Just that the P51s success was in part due to the work done by the P47. So was the P51 the aircraft that won the war, if the P47 had already taken out 3700 of the Luftwaffe's best pilots?

Spitfire was an interceptor - great at its job of defending Britain, but lacked the range to escort Allied bombers all the way to Germany and take the fight to Hitler's doorstep.

Thanks now I can't "unhear" it 😡 😂😂

Not to mention more than 50% of their aviation fuel was provided by the US.

The Russians built very ....agricultural....war machines.

Ilyushin II-2 Sturmovik for the uneducated among you. And I am not Russian.

After losses in the Norway campaign the Kreigsmarine had about the same number of destroyers as the RN did battleships.

Those planes were not key to the defense of the British isles, it was the development of radar that made the difference,allowing air command to move fighter to where they were needed. For a number of reasons, the US probably would never have dropped the atomic bomb on Germany, So support of long range bombing through P-51 escorts were key to the German surrender. There’s always other contributors to a cause, and although not fair, it’s usually the standouts that get noticed. It would be easy to credit the DC-3/C-47 as the flying workhorse of WWII, in my book. But what about the P-38’s role in the assignation of Yamamoto? Or the B-29 bombing of Japan including dropping the only 2 atomic bombs in anger. Everyone has their favorites. Frankly, when I see people get bent out of shape about it, I think it’s not a good look for them.

It was the fighter that saved the 8th Airforce.

​@@SmedleyDouwright A fighter didn't save the 8th AF. What saved the 8th AF was Jimmy Doolittle. He completely changed the tactics of the 8th AF.

What do u mean, exactly? That the p51 was so great?

I mean it's a script most likley written by non aircraft nerds. That's that they could have gotten an aircraft nerd To consult.

@@Blinkerd00d the "Fighter that won World War 2" narrative. the "single weapon changed the fate of the war" narrative. that sht was wrong back in the 2000s, like we should be able to know better that no matter how capable the weapon, no one element has a defining impact on the whole system.

@@air-headedaviator1805I’ve seen you post this or something similar. Are you that butthurt? Do you need a whaaambulance?

It's a tagine.