Christopher Tilley You silly person. This is a reno racer P51. They are lightened and have aerodynamic aids like shortened wings. But most of all they run a Rolls Royce "Transport block" Merlin, overblown to 5,000 hp at sea level. The regularly exceed 500 mph, around pylons 500 feet up.
vachief . 477 mph to be exact, the production mustang with rollsroyce Merlin engines are capable of flying at top speed 406 mph, this bird is a soup up mod for air race.
I was standing in the driveway of my parents house in Ballarat, Australia, in 1995, when a spitfire flew over us at what seemed to me to be an incredible speed and low height. The reverberating sound of that engine went right through you. I looked over at my father and he was shaking almost uncontrollably. He had been a radio operator in Lancaster bombers in England in WW2. The enormity of that Spitfire engine must have brought back some phenomenally visceral memories. I almost cry nowadays when I remember he had to go inside his bedroom for the rest of that day. May he rest in absolute peace.
Incredible story, my friend and his son were working in his garden. He had been in Iraq and Afghanistan, left the army, a military plane went over head. My friend stood in shock seeing the reaction invoked by the sound as he relived an experience of those days. Both were shook up and I know from two other friends one in Iraq 1990 and another 2003 they bring home lasting scars from what they have experienced.
I cared for RAAF and RAF veterans for many years in aged care, and those guys really suffered, their war started when the real war ended. Hi fellow Aussie.
I was in the U.S. Air Force in 1982 and we along with some RAF pilots were conducting an exercise at an airfield in the desert of Oman. We lived in tents for over a month; it was hot in the day and cold at night. Anyway, near the end of the exercise, six B52s performed a low level passover as a salute and goodbye to us. They were maybe 200 feet off the deck and I clearly remember literally bouncing as the ground shook and the roar of the engines were deafening and bone jarring. One of the coolest things I've ever experienced in my 64 years.
My Grandpa was stationed in Texas for the USAF and the squadron he was in had F-111. He said he could never have work done because the engines were so loud, even at night when they would sleep
_If the pilot's good. I mean if he's real sharp. He can barrel that baby in so low, it's a sight you oughta see sometime. A big plane like a '52 - jet exhaust frying chickens in the barnyard!_
The sight and sound of this aircraft brought back distant memories.. A long gone neighbor now, who was a P-51 pilot told me on numerous occasions, while telling stories, how he and a few of his buddies while flying into the blue looking for German aircraft, how they could not wait to engage the German aircraft and just rip them apart with our machine guns which felt like they were strapped to our shoulder blades and doing it while sitting in one of the most advanced high performance aircraft in the world, being in full, complete control and harmony - squeezing every bit , plus more , of the performance out of it while gunning down enemy pilots, aircraft and ground targets, and at the same time watching your buddies spiral off in a smoking and burning column into the ground 25,000 feet down there somewhere never-ever to be seen again. Frightening stories I tell you. Those young boys stepping up to the plate in those days are men of a character we will never see again. God rest all their soles, from all nations. Why is the madness of our world never going to end.
POPS The madness of our world IS going to end, with the return of Jesus, who is coming back to rule it Himself and restore peace, order and sanity to it at long last & to restore the enormous devastation that will soon overtake it... We are in the time that the Bible refers to as “The Last Days” and everything that you see happening today, from pestilence, to locust plagues, to the lawless anarchy and moral degeneracy of so many... has long been prophesied. Things are about to get FAR WORSE than you can possibly imagine - including major wars & enormous worldwide cataclysms... At least one third of the world’s population will perish... but Jesus will return within 10 years or so, based upon all the signs & portents that have been fulfilled & are in the process of being fulfilled... Indeed, He declared that if He didn’t return, NO ONE would be left. Make sure that you have repented of your sins & place your faith in Him as your Lord & Saviour because He’s not coming back as the gentle teacher & miracle worker from Bethlehem, but as “King of Kings & Lord of Lords” - to take back this world from those who have turned it into a moral cesspit & to annihilate the Antichrist & his irredeemably wicked minions who will very soon wage war on the righteous & wreak havoc for a few short but appalling years. Jesus once declared that, “He who is not with me is against me.” The time for foolish & rebellious Atheism, for mythical False religions & for sitting on the fence Agnosticism is almost over... The greatest deceiver in the history of Mankind is soon going to reveal himself and persuade vast multitudes that he is a divine messiah who must be followed. Anyone who is not a seeker of Truth & who lacks wisdom & discernment will not see through him & will be swept along by the tide of Satanic delusion and falsehood that precedes him and follows in his wake... Make sure that you have a Bible & read it because it’s all in there. Start praying to Jesus if you don’t already & ask Him to reveal these things to you, because no one else can or will save you from the times of terrible worldwide Tribulation that will soon be upon us... May God Bless you & keep you & reveal the unstoppable truth of these things to you, while there is yet time. 🙏
@@the5thmusketeer215 Apparently he is so busy resting people's soles, he doesn't even care about their souls. I mean, I know having tired feet sucks, but this goes too far!!
Joel Ewing Thank you kindly, Brother. 🤝 May God Bless you & keep you & your family safe in the days ahead... See you above the plains of Megiddo within a decade or so, for the most extraordinary and spectacular event in the History of Mankind..... 😲😲😲😇😲😲😲
Several years ago I was ferrying a helicopter across country. Stuck in Monterey, CA for repairs. They had an airshow the next day. five P-51's flat out in a low level V formation. Nothing compares to that number of Merlin engines making their music. Absolutely incredible.
Oh it’s a wonderful sound I live right by a little airfield that has an air show every year and nothing compares to being awoken to a small squadron flying over in WW2 era planes it instills a little fear into me now but of it must’ve been one hell of a time to be alive when these were a common occurrence such badassery
@@anthonymiglieri6181 I grew up in the '50s and '60s south of Wright Pat Airbase and sound barriers were busted all the time, knocking pictures off shelves, and shaking windows. X-15s were testing then, too, at a higher altitude as it couldn't take off and had to be dropped from B-52. One of the stealth fighters cannot fly either and is a controlled crash the whole time it is airborn.
God point, Joe. I once talked with a Panzer commander and he got hit by rockets off a Mustang in the last week of th war. Disabled his tank and the crew managed to get out but he said watching that Mustang level off and correct toward his vehicle, was even scarier than being on the Eastern Front the previous year. He said his entire crew just laid low and deserted after that, then just disbanded and headed home when they got word the war was over.
@@Willysmb44 I love those stories from WW2 vets. 40-50 years ago you could hear those stories everyday from a relative or stranger but now just lucky to have met someone who was actually there and gave you a personal account. My favorite was from a former Russian who owned a car repair shop in my town and he was showing off his German issue Walther PPK pistol he took from a German paratrooper and his father's 1891 Mosin rifle that he used to shoot him with as he floating down by his farm house in Russia. His father had recently been killed fighting the German advance and this was the first German he had ever seen. He was only ten.
To think that soon, you'll only be able to hear sounds like this on youtube breaks my heart. We need more people to keep these beautiful pieces of history in working order!
I wholeheartedly agree. Except, for a different kind of Merlin engine. The one built by SpaceX and used on Falcon 9. Have never heard anything so powerful and awe inspiring like that in person before. Absolutely cannot wait to hear how amazing the new Raptor engines sound in person also.
Damn, she`s still really fast, even by our measures. My pappy flew the F-4, my cousin the Tornado, and I flew the Typhoon. Thank you for uploading this clip.
Two sounds I will never get tired of hearing. The sound of a P-51 engine at the gathering of the war birds air show in Fresno Ca. and Eddie Van Halen’s guitar shredding my ear drums. Both are beautiful sounds. I will never get tired of each of them. Classic and classy.
You mean the sound of a Rolls-Royce Merlin? Manufactured under licence by Packhard and fitted to the ealierr Mustang, it transformed a lacklustre aircraft into one of the best.
When the movie first came out I thought his last word was “Earnest”. Like Earnest goes to camp. Took me about a year and several viewings to realize it was “Earn it”.
@@bigyellowjeep2889 Not really, few tanks were destroyed by planes on the western front of WW2. Even the Typhoon was not as successful as claimed. But the P-47 was a better ground striker than the P-51 given its ruggedness and extra guns.
Voodoo and strega are the only two airplanes left In the world that have that sound because while they both use merlins they are so highly tuned that they have a signature growl that you can hear about half a second before they scream past it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck and your chest vibrate it’s simply amazing
You most certainly won't be. The internal combustion engine is here for the long haul. Electric is ages away from being remotely close to practical for aircraft. The energy density of batteries would need to increase by a few orders of magnitude to allow for usage in aerospace. Even in cars it's debatable whether electric makes sense. Synthetic fuels are the future. Either ran on straight hydrogen or synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels made from capturing carbon directly from the air and combining it with hydrogen generated by electrolysis of water. All of these technologies exist right now, it's just not economically viable to scale out, but no new technology is. A carbon-neutral liquid fuel that's a drop-in replacement for petrol also doesn't line the pockets of the electric companies that make generous donations to politicians.
You can look up surviving P-51's (all models) and realize that only a handful are still actually operational. Most are on display or owned by rich folk.. so the likelihood of people appreciating them is slim to none, with each new generation. Furthermore.. this "Voodoo" P51 has been donated to a Museum & hasn't flown since 2017/18. Sadly many of these war machines have been & will be lost in time. Just like the P47 and so many other iconic WWII aircraft.
I dunno man...Concord or Blackbird at full chat is pretty hard to beat...that said I do know what you mean...for many years I lived on the flight path for when they do the fly past over Buckingham Palace for Rememberance Sundays and Royal Celebrations....so I could hear and look up and see Hurricanes, Spitfires as well as big bombers like Wellingtons and Lancasters.....and they flew so low, it felt like I could reach out and touch them....such great machines...and thankfully I get to appreciate and enjoy them durong times of peace 🙏🙏
The best jet fly-bys I ever experienced were when I was a kid in the late 1950s. Our house was on a hill and on the flight path for Offutt AFB (we did not live near Omaha), so we saw some exercises up close and personal. Two I remember most clearly. 1) A B-52 flew over our house so low that I could clearly see the pilot and co-pilot in the cockpit. 2) A fighter jet passed above me and a friend while we were on the road on horseback. It was also very low (lower than the B-52), and it frightened my horse so badly that he reared straight up.
@@vintagedreams3589 Yes, and your point is? I love the P-51 and honor all of the brave men that flew this fine machine into combat. Perhaps you misunderstood my post?
Actually met a Tuskegee Pilot at the air and space museum while attending grad school at Georgetown, he presented me with a book on the Biomedical Aspects of Apollo while giving me a tour of the P-51 he flew during WW II (not the actual one). Such an honor, still have the book!🙂
Lieutenant Colonel George Hardy (99th Fighter Squadron) is a Grandfather of a friend of mine. His P51 was named "Tall in the Saddle", and he is still kicking it @ 97
My dad was drafted into WW2, then later was put into the Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic. He loved these planes almost as much as the C-130. As a kid he took me to all the airshows, we lived in Marietta Ga. I miss him.
I've worked in aviation for a quarter century and that is my all time favorite sound. Two P51's based at my local, and neither never disappoint... always a low flyby, and I still go out to watch and hear!
My dad was a member of “Strega” crew back in the day. Won several unlimited championships while he was there. He also did contract work with Voodoo and several other planes. His work involved real time radio telemetry of all engine data to the ground. That way the chief mechanic and engine builder could monitor all the engine variables and the pilot could just concentrate on flying. I have a lot of memorabilia and signed posters/champagne bottles from those victories (Strega vs Rare Bear).
I recently went in a Lancaster to taxi, and the sound and reverberations of any ww2 aircraft engine cannot be far homed by any video, but this is still awesome to see nonetheless!
My dad sat on a hillside in germany and watched a squadron of p 51's decimate a gaggle of panzers moving on his position. They used rockets. After that he always got misty eyed when he spoke of his p- 51 angels.
safety first in texas • My Dad also recalled a time or two like that in the Battle of the Bulge. You and I don’t even know each other and we can both honestly, soberly say “We almost wasn’t!”
@@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 My Uncle Cecile Manning was shot down, I believe over France. He was flying a P51B. He was captured and became a prisoner of war for about 2 years. A little information is getting on the internet about him but not a great deal. He wouldn't talk about the war or the German prison. So my cousins were almost not.
@@georgevassey3729 they were also used on the p51s, the p47's and on corsairs the p51s used by the brits and the p47 models that brits had used a rp-3 rocket and the american ones had m10 rocketpods learn yo shit before talkin foo
When I was but a wee Lad my father impressed upon me the great love he had for this plane, because in WW2 it had saved his life ! He gave me a model of one which I treasured for sixty years until it was lost in a move. I fell in love with it because it had saved my dad and still miss it! If not for the P51, I probably would not exist! It does sound great! 😊
@Ken your model P51 probably got lost in the move just like mine did. My mom threw it in the trash along with my F4U Corsair and my Piper Cub. I built all 3 and got a blue ribbon for the Corsair at the Town fair. A little bit of her went a long ways.
@@nmelkhunter1 It's a wonderful "virus". A couple of years ago, talking to a corporate pilot, I said something about when I was a kid and some of us would sneak across the street from school (how convenient to have a school across the street from an airport). The corporate pilot said he also caught the "bug" at a very young age and he's still got it. BTW, two of my high school classmates became professional pilots. It never gets old or goes away. For my 41st b'day my wife arranged an aerobatic flight in a Citabria. Delightful. A couple of glider rides were also pure pleasure. Ditto the helicopter rides. Yes, I live next to an airport.
I was at an air show some time back with my dad, watching some boring display, the mustang sneaked up on the crowd from behind, screamed over, low level pass, scared the shit out of us, absolutely awesome, 30yrs on I remember it like yesterday
I had the distinct pleasure of sneaking onto the circuit at the first California 1000 in 1970 to stand near pylon 2 during a practice session. Kinda frightening for a 10 year old. Got run off before the race.
@@yamahajawa7083 I believe it completely. Imagine the pucker factor of dogfights in WW2. I'm not saying anything disrespectful about pilots today. It's just pilots back then, that was man and machine truly as one. "Hey that guy is ten thousand above me but, I can't just climb up and attack, ill lose my energy. " Just knowing that it is literally you, an engine, stick and throttle, and your wits, to save your ass, against a faster or more powerful foe.
@@yamahajawa7083 modern jet fighters are designed with inherent flight instability to allow such amazing rate of turn, roll speed and other things. without the computer to keep them them flying they would fly about as well as a soggy paper plane.
Riding From Dawn 2 Dusk kind of right. It was a British design but built under licence by pacard in the states. Spits had the R.R but Lancaster and the other bombers had pacard built engines due to reliability. Bombers had to endure 16 hour flights where as the fighters tended to be up and back down to re arm and refuel, also the fighters tended to be gunning the engines whereas the bombers were steady and less prone to over stressing. Never the less, willy hardening sound for sure.
+soaringtractor Still spreading your inaccurate message of hate I see. You must be a very unhappy man Wilbur..... Anyway, I came back from the States a week ago after flying 5 different types while I was there, including a B-25. You should have come flying in the Pitts S-2 - I'd love to have made you sick in your lap and frightened the crap out of you. What a horrible, nasty little man you are....
And Packard made tons on money off the manufacture of the Merlin and up until Dec 7, 1941 , the Germany government too. I had a neighbour whose father was the Colonel-General in charge of supply for the Germany military, in the early part of the war and in 1940 he made an inspection tour of the Packard plant in Cleveland, where along side the Merlin line , Packard was building the Daimler-Benz engines for the Germans, so as usual the Americans were making money from both sides until the Japanese screwed things up for them.
Terry Teed : In the beginning Packard Merlin equiped aircraft in some cases just blew up seemingly without a reason: teething problems.. Packard Merlins where used in some Britisch aircraft just because it was not possible to build enough RR Merlins.. nothing to do with a reliabillity thing.
A friend and I tried getting into the Reno Air Races back in the 1970s, and wound up driving through the desert to a spot under one of the pylons, resigned to a spot far from where we supposed the planes would be flying. But when the unlimited class started, we found we were right under them as they started into the turn off the rear straightaway. They sounded like this classic, only of course, deafening! And what a sight to behold, all waxed to a glistening finish in their brilliant paints, and flashing instantaneously overhead. I'm 70 now, and that was a day I'll never forget!
I like race cars, I freaking love this! We have local that has a F4U Corsair and a P51, he buzzes the RC field every once in a while and does a wing wave.... such a treat, I get a woody when that Merlin throttles up.
They used to have a corsair that raced a P51 in the Gold Race. You could tell who was rounding the corner by the sound. When they kicked in the ether it was so cool.
Man alive, that is an awe-inspiring sight.... wow! Thanks for posting the video.... just reaffirms my conviction that I was born forty years too late, i.e., 1961 instead of 1921. That was a golden age of aviation. Those lucky sons-of-guns who flew before and during WWII and then into the jet age. Far as that near-500 mph Mustang, that sucker just seemed fast, top to bottom. Sounded fast, looked fast, came into view quickly and got out of sight quickly. Damned impressive for a piston-engine aircraft. Kudos to the stick-and-rudder man who got it done.
Don't forget the incredible men that flew them for our country and helped us be able to live the lives we have today There will never be another generation of men like these from WW2
@@fifa22isshite90 during the air races we drive over the hill in my jeep and watch all thats going on. Many times we've been flown over and have been blasted by some of the best jets and prop-planes. I have pictures of the blue angels and the thunderbirds, even have the pilots wave back. Best was being buzzed by two F22 fighters just under a hundred feet above us doing well over 600mph. One jet went left just as it past us it broke the sound barrier. Thought it was going to blow out the windows on my jeep!
I get to fly some pretty fancy corporate jets for a living but the guys running these things to the max is the coolest thing out there. The mechanics around Reno can make a 150 go fast!
My brother and I shared a townhouse in the early 2000's that was situated close to a small corner of Lake Ontario. Every so often, the hair on my arms would inexplicably stand on end. The Hamilton war heritage museum houses the Lancaster and with our home so close to the water, the sound from those 4 engines would bounce perfectly off the water and right into our living room. On lower flybys it was incredible! We FELT the Lanc before we heard or saw it. About once a month in summer we would experience this. Kinda cool to live inline with it's routine flight path.
In Riverside California. I lived on a street by the name of Benecia. It was close to the Riverside airport. The P51 that flew out from there, and it was flying around one day, as all the kids in the neighborhood were all playing in the street. I was 13 and this was late 1962 early 1963. He must have seen us, and we were waving at him and he gave us a little show, as he was not that high up in the sky. He climbed up a ways and made a dive right at us. It was great to see and hear this P51 do that. Still in my memory after all these years...
😊a pilot told me that when he was landing into the wind at the riverside Airport, he could almost stop before the wheels touched the ground. Wind would blow 60 to 100 mph for three days straight. It picked up 18 wheelers on I60 and flip them like toys.
In some deep way, the great, powerful roar of those classic fighters is one of the few things left in our time that perfectly convey, with no language barriers, the strength and boldness required to overcome evil.
So true! Before I read your comment I was in that space of a 1945 soldier with 1945 weapons looking up at one of these things and all I could sense was fear! How do you fight that!? It's power and ferocity would have been clearly evident when you hear it fly by! I mean, think of where cars were at back then! To have seen this fly by like this as an axis soldier would strike fear in the heart! It's ferocious!!!
Evil resides in every man's soul...yours and mine included. It doesn't discriminate along national borders. Both sides of a war commit atrocities...to forget that is to lower your guard against it.
What a glorious sound! WWII fighters are the most aesthetically pleasing planes ever made IMO. Sure technology has moved on but what a classic masterpiece. Like comparing a Lambo to a 68-70 Challenger, I love the Challenger.
All I saw was "Voodoo", so I was looking for an F-101. I was a little surprised to see that prop, then I checked the title of this clip. This is a beautiful P-51, and the sound is incredible.
As a kid, we used a to play out about a couple of miles from there, when the USAF still owned Stead Air Force Base. We lived about two miles from the base, in the hamlet of Black Springs. Back then, the most common plane flying to and from and around there where C-54's, C-118's, C-119's, and other larger aircraft.
I had a P-51 flying over the house last week. And you know what I said "P-51 Cadillac of the Sky" I live next to Chino in the bluffs and was fortunate to have flew in a Jump seat in a P-51. Found out halfway through the ride that my pilot held the record for flying inverted. And luckily for him my stomach did too.
Having been born right after WWII, my father, who was in the US Army from WWII 'til 1970, took us to every nearby airshow he could find, and us kids could spot the sound of a P-51 at full throttle with our eyes closed. They have a distinctive sound, and this ain't it! It still sounds great, but to say it sounds like an original Rolls Royce Merlin engine means that the hearer never heard the original! God bless all and Thank you to all who served!
David Berry as best I can tell from reading the engine an it's exhaust are original. The pistons, rods, supercharger, fuel injection, props and spinners have all been changed but no notes about the exhaust. I suspect you just didn't often hear them scream at such a high RPM.
@@Mrcaffinebean of course the exhaust wasn't changed, it dumped right out the exhaust ports from the factory, with just a slight rearward turn as it exits the fuselage, so there's no upgrades beyond that, as dumping from the ports at a slight rearward angle creates the optimum amount of flow as well as a slight bit of extra thrust
Sounds awesome! Not to mention, that's the plane that helped to put the final nails in the Nazi's coffin. It also went from drawing board to working prototype in less than 90 days. Try getting that to happen today.
That is such a beautiful sound. I once got to listen to an idling Spitfire at RAF Coningsby while they were trying to troubleshoot a problem with the engine. It was simultaneously a magnificent sound, but didn't sound right, like the engine was stuttering a bit because of whatever was wrong with it. But struth it was loud.
Anyone interested in engine mods. It's pressurized fuel injection, mechanical supercharger, dual stage. 180 Octane fuel with maganese. 65-75 PSI Boost, Allison connecting rods instead of Merlin. A prop from a Douglas A-1 Skyraider and a spinner from a Bell P-63 King Cobra. All of this combined with modern day Dyno/PC tuning and you have like 1500 Horsepower gain
@@safetyfirstintexas The Offenhauser 2.6 L (159 CID) 4 cylinder, DOHC 16V made 1250 HP in race form back in the early 1970's on the Indy circuit; was capable of 1400+ but nearly broke the dyno so HP beyond 1400 was not attempted. That is without an intercooler, no electronic fuel injection, and no electronic engine management! Offenhauser 4 cylinder engines were gradually rulebooked off the track beginning in the mid 70's, because European teams refused to come to the Indy circuit as long as the Offy was running on the circuit. Ferrari, Mercedes, Porsche etc, did not want the American-designed-and-built Offenhauser blowing their best engines off the the track in a fair rules, head to head contest.
The FASTEST military airplane ever built. Even today a plane like that is still Amazing. A neighbor of mine that used to live across the street flew a P-51 Mustang during WW2, he told me about A lot of his flying missions back then. He described his P-51 as a Lightning Monster in flight.Reast in peace Mr. Koral.
The sound of that plane is amazing and terrifying all at the same time. What a beast. I couldn't imagine how that felt in person. I need to experience this live.
The technology in these engines is incredible. Four valves per cylinder. Roller camshaft followers. Supercharging. Methanol injection. The Germans even had direct injection. Things we think are "advanced" they had 75 years ago.
@@SuperBeaker1 Turns out the original allison motor put out more horsepower, but failed to operate at high enough altitudes needed for the mustang. The Merlin put out the most well balanced power in any altitude so the Packard licensed Merlin won the contract.
When you hear one, you will remember. There was an air show in El Paso Texas. The B-17 was dropping down and picking up folks and they had their pattern. Well the mustang was late and had to catch up. When you heard it, either you loved it or hated it. But, you could not forget the sound of that engine. Breathless
@@stripervince1 True. Tech progresses in leaps it seems. 1966 to 2021 ( almost 60 years ) we have much fewer milestones, hope this changes now that the space-race is getting hot again
I don't see what gets everyone upset when people discuss what's in the video. A lot of information in videos on RUclips can be easily found with a bit of research. Look up; "Turboprop schematics" and "how a supercharger works" and you'll have a pretty solid understanding of what allowed these fighters to reach almost transonic speeds.
The Meredith Effect from the belly mounted radiator nets a ram jet thrust which exceeds the drag imposed by the dangly device. Yes, every Mustang is partially jet propelled! Cool air is rammed in, slowed down, heated and then exits at a higher velocity. Just like a jet engine.
MeE2112 It is the air scoop for the radiator, but the commenter is correct in that the air that comes in is heated and expelled out of a variable position exhaust door behind the scoop, and the characteristic sound of the Mustang is caused by this effect known as Merideth.
My grandpa served on the ground for a squadron of those. He took us to Richards-Gebaur for every air show. The p-51 was always my favorite part of the show. He would tell us about them all the time. He loved those British Merlin engines (Rolls-Royce).
Actually the really fast P-51s had Packard Merlin engines. British design but built to much higher tolerances by the Packard car company of USA. Brit version was built by Rolls Royce and although mechanically identical, did not perform as well or last as long between overhauls as the Packard Merlin.
That, ladies and gentlemen, was the sound of hope for many soldiers, in the worst war the world has ever seen. Lets work together to avoid that again. Happy belated Memorial Day folks. Hat's off to the Champs who flew these in 1942. The pure sound of American Freedom!
The P51, corsair, lightening , F14, F16, F18, F22 and SR-71 are the most beautiful airframes mankind has sent into the skies. Seriously they're the best art we've produced as a nation. Shoutout to the A10 and B52 for being works of art in their own rights.
BF-109 and Spitfire: are you fucking shitting us? We were legendary bitter rivals, and a failed carrier aircraft turned land based fighter got higher than us?
You never forget that sound. I was in the VIP seating area as Vodoo and Galloping Ghost were taking their practice runs back in 2011 , when Galloping Ghost lost its trim tab and crashed in front of us. It is a day I will never forget. Had the trajectory angle been different I would not be here today.
It was the absolute best power plant for the unlimited hydroplanes…. Much sexier than the turbines that replaced them. Those Merlins were the reason they called ‘em Thunderboats!
@@xres1329 The Germans were fine, fine airplane engineers. But when it came to all out war you don't want a handful of complex modern marvels. You want good, simple, cheap. And a lot of it. Fun fact the P-51 was made by an engineer from America for the British when they came to us asking for more P-40s, he told them he could build them something better in every way and have it ready in 120 days. I believe he had it ready in like 117. Granted that was the model with the Allison engine, but it delivered on its promise of outperforming the P-40 in every aspect.
@@RoxnDox alot of the boats actually ran Allison's stronger bottom end, these planes are limited in rpm by the gear reduction, can't run the prop supersonic it doesn't like that. The boats had no such issue, and Allison's were cheaper and had stronger Rods. The Cooper u3 still runs with an allison, last one
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Come see for yourself! Reno National Championship Air Races in September-airrace.org/ I'll see you there!
blancolirio never heard of it. But I'll see exactly what it is when I land in Reno in September. #iwantaride or at least a #iwantaphoto
Watched Dunkirk the other day. Some amazing WarBird scenes.
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Christopher Tilley You silly person. This is a reno racer P51. They are lightened and have aerodynamic aids like shortened wings. But most of all they run a Rolls Royce "Transport block" Merlin, overblown to 5,000 hp at sea level. The regularly exceed 500 mph, around pylons 500 feet up.
vachief . 477 mph to be exact, the production mustang with rollsroyce Merlin engines are capable of flying at top speed 406 mph, this bird is a soup up mod for air race.
I was standing in the driveway of my parents house in Ballarat, Australia, in 1995, when a spitfire flew over us at what seemed to me to be an incredible speed and low height. The reverberating sound of that engine went right through you. I looked over at my father and he was shaking almost uncontrollably. He had been a radio operator in Lancaster bombers in England in WW2. The enormity of that Spitfire engine must have brought back some phenomenally visceral memories. I almost cry nowadays when I remember he had to go inside his bedroom for the rest of that day. May he rest in absolute peace.
Incredible story, my friend and his son were working in his garden. He had been in Iraq and Afghanistan, left the army, a military plane went over head. My friend stood in shock seeing the reaction invoked by the sound as he relived an experience of those days. Both were shook up and I know from two other friends one in Iraq 1990 and another 2003 they bring home lasting scars from what they have experienced.
A big salute to your dad👏👏👏👏
Salute - from the grandson of a Spitfire Pilot.
Rest his soul and utmost respect to him my friend. A terrible war it was!
I cared for RAAF and RAF veterans for many years in aged care, and those guys really suffered, their war started when the real war ended. Hi fellow Aussie.
I was in the U.S. Air Force in 1982 and we along with some RAF pilots were conducting an exercise at an airfield in the desert of Oman. We lived in tents for over a month; it was hot in the day and cold at night. Anyway, near the end of the exercise, six B52s performed a low level passover as a salute and goodbye to us. They were maybe 200 feet off the deck and I clearly remember literally bouncing as the ground shook and the roar of the engines were deafening and bone jarring. One of the coolest things I've ever experienced in my 64 years.
Beautiful
Thats Climate Change!😃
Thanks for your service.
My Grandpa was stationed in Texas for the USAF and the squadron he was in had F-111. He said he could never have work done because the engines were so loud, even at night when they would sleep
_If the pilot's good. I mean if he's real sharp. He can barrel that baby in so low, it's a sight you oughta see sometime. A big plane like a '52 - jet exhaust frying chickens in the barnyard!_
The sight and sound of this aircraft brought back distant memories..
A long gone neighbor now, who was a P-51 pilot told me on numerous occasions, while telling stories, how he and a few of his buddies while flying into the blue looking for German aircraft, how they could not wait to engage the German aircraft and just rip them apart with our
machine guns which felt like they were strapped to our shoulder blades and doing it while sitting in one of the most advanced high performance aircraft in the world, being in full, complete control and harmony - squeezing every bit , plus more , of the performance out of it while gunning down enemy pilots, aircraft and ground targets, and at the same time watching your buddies spiral off in a smoking and burning column into the ground 25,000 feet down there somewhere never-ever to be seen again.
Frightening stories I tell you. Those young boys stepping up to the plate in those days are men of a character we will never see again. God rest all their soles, from all nations. Why is the madness of our world never going to end.
Imagine if you are trying to bail out but the g-forces keep you pinned.
POPS The madness of our world IS going to end, with the return of Jesus, who is coming back to rule it Himself and restore peace, order and sanity to it at long last & to restore the enormous devastation that will soon overtake it... We are in the time that the Bible refers to as “The Last Days” and everything that you see happening today, from pestilence, to locust plagues, to the lawless anarchy and moral degeneracy of so many... has long been prophesied. Things are about to get FAR WORSE than you can possibly imagine - including major wars & enormous worldwide cataclysms... At least one third of the world’s population will perish... but Jesus will return within 10 years or so, based upon all the signs & portents that have been fulfilled & are in the process of being fulfilled... Indeed, He declared that if He didn’t return, NO ONE would be left.
Make sure that you have repented of your sins & place your faith in Him as your Lord & Saviour because He’s not coming back as the gentle teacher & miracle worker from Bethlehem, but as “King of Kings & Lord of Lords” - to take back this world from those who have turned it into a moral cesspit & to annihilate the Antichrist & his irredeemably wicked minions who will very soon wage war on the righteous & wreak havoc for a few short but appalling years.
Jesus once declared that, “He who is not with me is against me.” The time for foolish & rebellious Atheism, for mythical False religions & for sitting on the fence Agnosticism is almost over... The greatest deceiver in the history of Mankind is soon going to reveal himself and persuade vast multitudes that he is a divine messiah who must be followed. Anyone who is not a seeker of Truth & who lacks wisdom & discernment will not see through him & will be swept along by the tide of Satanic delusion and falsehood that precedes him and follows in his wake... Make sure that you have a Bible & read it because it’s all in there. Start praying to Jesus if you don’t already & ask Him to reveal these things to you, because no one else can or will save you from the times of terrible worldwide Tribulation that will soon be upon us... May God Bless you & keep you & reveal the unstoppable truth of these things to you, while there is yet time. 🙏
@@the5thmusketeer215 Apparently he is so busy resting people's soles, he doesn't even care about their souls. I mean, I know having tired feet sucks, but this goes too far!!
@@the5thmusketeer215 Magnificently written. You have a gift. Thank you for telling it like it truly is and will be. jbeinarizona
Joel Ewing Thank you kindly, Brother. 🤝 May God Bless you & keep you & your family safe in the days ahead...
See you above the plains of Megiddo within a decade or so, for the most extraordinary and spectacular event in the History of Mankind.....
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Several years ago I was ferrying a helicopter across country. Stuck in Monterey, CA for repairs. They had an airshow the next day. five P-51's flat out in a low level V formation. Nothing compares to that number of Merlin engines making their music. Absolutely incredible.
Oh it’s a wonderful sound I live right by a little airfield that has an air show every year and nothing compares to being awoken to a small squadron flying over in WW2 era planes it instills a little fear into me now but of it must’ve been one hell of a time to be alive when these were a common occurrence such badassery
Have a listen to the Canadian or UK Lancaster, 4 of those lovely Merlins
We just had a great airshow this last weekend....i think my son got tired of my Merlin stories.....nothin compares....
@@anthonymiglieri6181 I grew up in the '50s and '60s south of Wright Pat Airbase and sound barriers were busted all the time, knocking pictures off shelves, and shaking windows. X-15s were testing then, too, at a higher altitude as it couldn't take off and had to be dropped from B-52. One of the stealth fighters cannot fly either and is a controlled crash the whole time it is airborn.
Now imagine how many times that was the last sound ever heard while frantically trying to load an ammo belt into a mg42 ...
"When I saw P-51s over Berlin I knew it was over"
God point, Joe. I once talked with a Panzer commander and he got hit by rockets off a Mustang in the last week of th war. Disabled his tank and the crew managed to get out but he said watching that Mustang level off and correct toward his vehicle, was even scarier than being on the Eastern Front the previous year. He said his entire crew just laid low and deserted after that, then just disbanded and headed home when they got word the war was over.
Not that often as the p51 was a bomber escort
@@dakudor There are volumes of archived P-51 trigger activated footage against German armor and soft targets. It's some of my favorite WW2 footage.
@@Willysmb44 I love those stories from WW2 vets. 40-50 years ago you could hear those stories everyday from a relative or stranger but now just lucky to have met someone who was actually there and gave you a personal account. My favorite was from a former Russian who owned a car repair shop in my town and he was showing off his German issue Walther PPK pistol he took from a German paratrooper and his father's 1891 Mosin rifle that he used to shoot him with as he floating down by his farm house in Russia. His father had recently been killed fighting the German advance and this was the first German he had ever seen. He was only ten.
I know our modern jets are orders of magnitude better, but nothing will ever replace this masterpiece. I literally get chills every time I hear one.
Still a nice budget option.
imo the Merlin-engined Spitfire sounds just above this in level of awesomeness
You and I should start a band called Orders of Magnitude.
Too bad this is basically also a modern aircraft, with all those modifications.
It depends on what you calling better. A lot of old aeroplanes look and sound orders of magnitude better than modern jets!! In my opinion at least!!
"May blow speakers"
*rises volume to max*
He must have wank speakers
Is that really your last name??
Your name blows my mind
Try me bitch😂😂😂
This is what I fucking did. HELL YEAH BROTHER
To think that soon, you'll only be able to hear sounds like this on youtube breaks my heart. We need more people to keep these beautiful pieces of history in working order!
The desert graveyard has many still functioning aircraft.
I'm fortunate enough to see them every year ... home of the EAA
NOTHING else sounds like a Merlin engine. Music to my ears
I wholeheartedly agree. Except, for a different kind of Merlin engine. The one built by SpaceX and used on Falcon 9. Have never heard anything so powerful and awe inspiring like that in person before. Absolutely cannot wait to hear how amazing the new Raptor engines sound in person also.
These are air race engines, heavily modified, you can tell a difference between the iconic one and these when heard side by side
But this Merlin is nothing like those used in WW2. Lots of new technology and modifications done to achieve these speeds.
Enthusiastically 2nd that!
The hurry sound of the Mustang, the howl of the C-5a and the world is gonna end sound of the B-1B always gets a reaction from me.
The sound of silence, then it screams out of nowhere. Imagine being on the receiving end in WWII
Ones in ww2 weren't near that loud. This baby is modified out the ass.
@@gingerbaker1785 although just as equally terrifying when you’re getting shot at by it
@@diminuendo61 Of course six 50s is no cake walk.
@@gingerbaker1785 no cake walk but it might be a Swiss cheese walk. Let’s ask the Krauts 🎤🧀
@@gingerbaker1785 did you know that the first use of nitrous oxide boost on a combustion engine was used on ww2 aircraft 😉
Imagine a whole squadron of them in combat flying over.
ww2 flashbacks
Lmao
Rly…? 😂
What about w squadrons?
*in FORMATION
Damn, she`s still really fast, even by our measures. My pappy flew the F-4, my cousin the Tornado, and I flew the Typhoon. Thank you for uploading this clip.
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DCS is great, isn't it?
@@davewalkden7248 lol u idiot
@@davewalkden7248 ?
That any propeller-driven aircraft can reach speeds of nearly 500 miles an hour is just astounding.
Two sounds I will never get tired of hearing. The sound of a P-51 engine at the gathering of the war birds air show in Fresno Ca. and Eddie Van Halen’s guitar shredding my ear drums. Both are beautiful sounds. I will never get tired of each of them. Classic and classy.
❤That is beautiful.
P-51 engine? You will call it the Merlin you uncultured swine ;)
Both are equal parts beautiful, noisy and powerful
Well said
You mean the sound of a Rolls-Royce Merlin? Manufactured under licence by Packhard and fitted to the ealierr Mustang, it transformed a lacklustre aircraft into one of the best.
I could sit there in a lawn chair all afternoon watching that. Hot rods of the sky.
Go to Osh Kosh Airventure one summer. You’ll never forget it.
I like that! That’s a good way to put it
You ain’t Kiddin
actually they were called "Cadillac of the sky" per Empire of the Sun
ruclips.net/video/Ekv_mUb3yuo/видео.html
No they are and always will be "Cadillac's of the Sky" thanks to that scene in "Emperor of the Sun"
Imagine being 21 years old in a such powerful machine.
He would feel invincible.
Only against german fighters.
@@gliderfs621 Why only against German fighters. He said "feel" invincible...?!
@@a320nick He would feel invincible until he meet a Me262 or a Dora 🙃
@@gliderfs621 me262 🤓
Until he met a zero!! 🤪🤪🤪
My dad was a p-51 mechanic in WWII,the memory’s and the sound of this monster is just breathtaking!!
@johnmartlew
"Tank busters sir, P51's." "Angels on our shoulders."
When the movie first came out I thought his last word was “Earnest”. Like Earnest goes to camp.
Took me about a year and several viewings to realize it was “Earn it”.
The true tank busters were P47’s
Somebody watched saving private ryan
@@bigyellowjeep2889 Not really, few tanks were destroyed by planes on the western front of WW2. Even the Typhoon was not as successful as claimed. But the P-47 was a better ground striker than the P-51 given its ruggedness and extra guns.
Except they weren't carrying bombs...
Back in the 1990's I worked with an older gentleman who flew P-51's in the war. He spoke of them with great reverence and affection.
Voodoo and strega are the only two airplanes left In the world that have that sound because while they both use merlins they are so highly tuned that they have a signature growl that you can hear about half a second before they scream past it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck and your chest vibrate it’s simply amazing
run on sentences 🔥🔥
I was looking for this comment. Was so sure that it wasn't just a normal Merlin that sounded like that. Sounded more like a swooped up Turboprop
Yep, I know that sound well. My dad was on the crew for Strega back in the day. Fond memories.
@@WaterFaucet24 that is awesome
Dago Red as well, if it ever will fly again
We may be the last generation to appreciate the sound of a high-output internal combustion engine.
Liberals rather hear the sound of shoot outs and looters.
They still fly plane from early 1910 , they definitely still can fly p-51 in 50-100 years
You most certainly won't be. The internal combustion engine is here for the long haul. Electric is ages away from being remotely close to practical for aircraft. The energy density of batteries would need to increase by a few orders of magnitude to allow for usage in aerospace. Even in cars it's debatable whether electric makes sense. Synthetic fuels are the future. Either ran on straight hydrogen or synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels made from capturing carbon directly from the air and combining it with hydrogen generated by electrolysis of water. All of these technologies exist right now, it's just not economically viable to scale out, but no new technology is. A carbon-neutral liquid fuel that's a drop-in replacement for petrol also doesn't line the pockets of the electric companies that make generous donations to politicians.
Pffft like Hell it will.
You can look up surviving P-51's (all models) and realize that only a handful are still actually operational. Most are on display or owned by rich folk.. so the likelihood of people appreciating them is slim to none, with each new generation. Furthermore.. this "Voodoo" P51 has been donated to a Museum & hasn't flown since 2017/18. Sadly many of these war machines have been & will be lost in time. Just like the P47 and so many other iconic WWII aircraft.
"How does it fly?"
"Like an angel"
"I've never saw angels with 6 .50s"
Red Tails
red tails is a terrible movie
“No, but they carried .50 cal arrows in their quivers” 🤣
@@reallifeengineer7214 good one, partner 🤣
All good angels carry a 50 cal to induce freedom into communists.
Note: .50 is 50 cal by itself so by saying .50 cal you are technically saying 50 cal cal
That is the best sounding aircraft engine I’ve ever heard
Edit: thank you for all the likes
Yeah, P-51 engines are pretty sweet. Same can be said for Avro Vulcans and U-2s, and the Hawker Hunter's blue note is great too
That would have to be the best sounding engine out of any motorsport
Nothing rattles your bones like a f-22 doing a vertical climb though
@@tvon4966 you should hear a eurofighter typhoon pulling them g’s! I have seen most even the f22 and typhoon shakes everything and even louder!
@@Joetrout ive only ever seen american aircraft im in florida
Honestly this is way cooler than the modern jet fly-bys. This is old school cool
I dunno man...Concord or Blackbird at full chat is pretty hard to beat...that said I do know what you mean...for many years I lived on the flight path for when they do the fly past over Buckingham Palace for Rememberance Sundays and Royal Celebrations....so I could hear and look up and see Hurricanes, Spitfires as well as big bombers like Wellingtons and Lancasters.....and they flew so low, it felt like I could reach out and touch them....such great machines...and thankfully I get to appreciate and enjoy them durong times of peace 🙏🙏
The best jet fly-bys I ever experienced were when I was a kid in the late 1950s. Our house was on a hill and on the flight path for Offutt AFB (we did not live near Omaha), so we saw some exercises up close and personal. Two I remember most clearly. 1) A B-52 flew over our house so low that I could clearly see the pilot and co-pilot in the cockpit. 2) A fighter jet passed above me and a friend while we were on the road on horseback. It was also very low (lower than the B-52), and it frightened my horse so badly that he reared straight up.
Those old birds give me goosebumps. What a testament to engineering.
The dislikes are from the people whose speakers got blown
And the bad guys killed by the P-51 in WWII.
@@OverlandOne which was intended for that during war time....hello
@@vintagedreams3589 Yes, and your point is? I love the P-51 and honor all of the brave men that flew this fine machine into combat. Perhaps you misunderstood my post?
What dumbass would dislike this
@@OverlandOne Dont forget sailors at Pearl Harbor. That started this ww2 for America. 3 days later Germany joined
Actually met a Tuskegee Pilot at the air and space museum while attending grad school at Georgetown, he presented me with a book on the Biomedical Aspects of Apollo while giving me a tour of the P-51 he flew during WW II (not the actual one). Such an honor, still have the book!🙂
I am jealous!!! 👍👍
One of the Tuskegee airman lived in my city in northern Minnesota. I got to listen to him give several speeches and met him in person. Such an honor.
Such an honor!
Lieutenant Colonel George Hardy (99th Fighter Squadron) is a Grandfather of a friend of mine. His P51 was named "Tall in the Saddle", and he is still kicking it @ 97
Thaaaaat SOUND!!!!!Man,thaaaat awesome beautiful Sound!!!
Luna McLean you must be fun at knitting parties...
Luna McLean
Bad day
Yves Et Lise Launiere Et Thibault a real Pearl Habour sound
LOL.... Someone doesn't appreciate a plane that gave us freedom...
Then why the fuck are you here listening to it?
My dad was drafted into WW2, then later was put into the Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic. He loved these planes almost as much as the C-130. As a kid he took me to all the airshows, we lived in Marietta Ga. I miss him.
I've worked in aviation for a quarter century and that is my all time favorite sound. Two P51's based at my local, and neither never disappoint... always a low flyby, and I still go out to watch and hear!
12 cylindres en étoile le meilleur moteur avionique jamais créé !
Merci Rolls Royce Merlin 🫡
That makes you realise War is not a video game, The sound is terrifying yet Outstanding!!!
Noneofyourbussiness:) imagine 100 of those in a dog fight.
Noneofyourbussiness:) theres the differences, war is terrifying in every ways.
Or the sound and then guns blazing towards you.
Awesome.
Noneofyourbussiness:) well that is an extemely modified aircraft. They did not sound nearly as menacing in ww2.
Note that they would not have sounded _that_ intense since these are heavily modified planes compared to the WWII versions.
My dad was a member of “Strega” crew back in the day. Won several unlimited championships while he was there. He also did contract work with Voodoo and several other planes. His work involved real time radio telemetry of all engine data to the ground. That way the chief mechanic and engine builder could monitor all the engine variables and the pilot could just concentrate on flying. I have a lot of memorabilia and signed posters/champagne bottles from those victories (Strega vs Rare Bear).
Who cares
That’s actually pretty sweet!
@@J.G.Wentworth69420 mad much?
What ever happened to strega and voodoo anyways? It seems like they were retired or something
@@J.G.Wentworth69420 your mom thought the telemetry was pretty hot
I recently went in a Lancaster to taxi, and the sound and reverberations of any ww2 aircraft engine cannot be far homed by any video, but this is still awesome to see nonetheless!
My dad sat on a hillside in germany and watched a squadron of p 51's decimate a gaggle of panzers moving on his position. They used rockets. After that he always got misty eyed when he spoke of his p- 51 angels.
safety first in texas • My Dad also recalled a time or two like that in the Battle of the Bulge. You and I don’t even know each other and we can both honestly, soberly say “We almost wasn’t!”
@@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 My Uncle Cecile Manning was shot down, I believe over France. He was flying a P51B. He was captured and became a prisoner of war for about 2 years.
A little information is getting on the internet about him but not a great deal.
He wouldn't talk about the war or the German prison.
So my cousins were almost not.
Rockets were not used on P51s, only P38s.Common mistake made by ground troops.
@@georgevassey3729 ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/rocket-and-p-51.5685/#lg=post-198953&slide=0 is one of many images of WW2 Mustangs with rockets.
@@georgevassey3729 they were also used on the p51s, the p47's and on corsairs
the p51s used by the brits and the p47 models that brits had used a rp-3 rocket and the american ones had m10 rocketpods
learn yo shit before talkin foo
When I was but a wee Lad my father impressed upon me the great love he had for this plane, because in WW2 it had saved his life ! He gave me a model of one which I treasured for sixty years until it was lost in a move. I fell in love with it because it had saved my dad and still miss it!
If not for the P51, I probably would not exist!
It does sound great! 😊
@Ken your model P51 probably got lost in the move just like mine did. My mom threw it in the trash along with my F4U Corsair and my Piper Cub. I built all 3 and got a blue ribbon for the Corsair at the Town fair. A little bit of her went a long ways.
God Love ya Dad Thanks For Serveing
As any little kid would say his dad, “Do it again! Do it again!”
Or any 81 year old. . .
nemo227 LOL!
@@nmelkhunter1 It's a wonderful "virus". A couple of years ago, talking to a corporate pilot, I said something about when I was a kid and some of us would sneak across the street from school (how convenient to have a school across the street from an airport). The corporate pilot said he also caught the "bug" at a very young age and he's still got it. BTW, two of my high school classmates became professional pilots. It never gets old or goes away. For my 41st b'day my wife arranged an aerobatic flight in a Citabria. Delightful. A couple of glider rides were also pure pleasure. Ditto the helicopter rides. Yes, I live next to an airport.
Awesome! I worked on B-1B's for 30 years. Standing 50 feet away from those 4 GE F101's at full afterburner is quite the experience.
I was at an air show some time back with my dad, watching some boring display, the mustang sneaked up on the crowd from behind, screamed over, low level pass, scared the shit out of us, absolutely awesome, 30yrs on I remember it like yesterday
I had the distinct pleasure of sneaking onto the circuit at the first California 1000 in 1970 to stand near pylon 2 during a practice session. Kinda frightening for a 10 year old. Got run off before the race.
I’m a photographer on Long Island, NY. Each year we have an air show over Jones Beach and every time, we enjoy those Mustangs screaming past.
When the best plane in America meets the best engine in Britain.
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It was a Rolls, right?
@@ryanmustain6545 yes...merlin
@@Seek-Light the sound of gayness
@@Voodoo_S3 they deffo do it on the Lancaster, they ran it at night and the engines were glowing, pretty neat
That was the sound of either the cavalry coming in to save the day, or to bring death from above! I am glad they were on our side!
When the Doppler Effect takes the sound down more than two octaves, that is amazing speed. The very definition of "Badass."
Fighter pilots today wish they could be flying those. Those are like the old school muscle cars to today's high-end supercars.
U would not say but they have totally respect fore those old beasts
@@yamahajawa7083 I believe it completely. Imagine the pucker factor of dogfights in WW2. I'm not saying anything disrespectful about pilots today. It's just pilots back then, that was man and machine truly as one. "Hey that guy is ten thousand above me but, I can't just climb up and attack, ill lose my energy. " Just knowing that it is literally you, an engine, stick and throttle, and your wits, to save your ass, against a faster or more powerful foe.
@@whalehands yes today computer doing most of its work for your self and back than it was 300%about pilot skill.
@@whalehands pure pilot skill
@@yamahajawa7083 modern jet fighters are designed with inherent flight instability to allow such amazing rate of turn, roll speed and other things. without the computer to keep them them flying they would fly about as well as a soggy paper plane.
American air frame British engine... what a team!
Riding From Dawn 2 Dusk kind of right. It was a British design but built under licence by pacard in the states. Spits had the R.R but Lancaster and the other bombers had pacard built engines due to reliability. Bombers had to endure 16 hour flights where as the fighters tended to be up and back down to re arm and refuel, also the fighters tended to be gunning the engines whereas the bombers were steady and less prone to over stressing. Never the less, willy hardening sound for sure.
+soaringtractor Still spreading your inaccurate message of hate I see. You must be a very unhappy man Wilbur..... Anyway, I came back from the States a week ago after flying 5 different types while I was there, including a B-25. You should have come flying in the Pitts S-2 - I'd love to have made you sick in your lap and frightened the crap out of you. What a horrible, nasty little man you are....
And Packard made tons on money off the manufacture of the Merlin and up until Dec 7, 1941 , the Germany government too. I had a neighbour whose father was the Colonel-General in charge of supply for the Germany military, in the early part of the war and in 1940 he made an inspection tour of the Packard plant in Cleveland, where along side the Merlin line , Packard was building the Daimler-Benz engines for the Germans, so as usual the Americans were making money from both sides until the Japanese screwed things up for them.
Charles Damery lol never realized Cleveland was in North Korea or Russia, as they are the only two countries that have the rank of "colonel-general!
Terry Teed : In the beginning Packard Merlin equiped aircraft in some cases just blew up seemingly without a reason: teething problems..
Packard Merlins where used in some Britisch aircraft just because it was not possible to build enough RR Merlins.. nothing to do with a reliabillity thing.
A friend and I tried getting into the Reno Air Races back in the 1970s, and wound up driving through the desert to a spot under one of the pylons, resigned to a spot far from where we supposed the planes would be flying. But when the unlimited class started, we found we were right under them as they started into the turn off the rear straightaway. They sounded like this classic, only of course, deafening! And what a sight to behold, all waxed to a glistening finish in their brilliant paints, and flashing instantaneously overhead. I'm 70 now, and that was a day I'll never forget!
I like race cars, I freaking love this! We have local that has a F4U Corsair and a P51, he buzzes the RC field every once in a while and does a wing wave.... such a treat, I get a woody when that Merlin throttles up.
They used to have a corsair that raced a P51 in the Gold Race. You could tell who was rounding the corner by the sound. When they kicked in the ether it was so cool.
I've watched this about 30 times and I smile every time she comes by.
Man alive, that is an awe-inspiring sight.... wow! Thanks for posting the video.... just reaffirms my conviction that I was born forty years too late, i.e., 1961 instead of 1921. That was a golden age of aviation. Those lucky sons-of-guns who flew before and during WWII and then into the jet age. Far as that near-500 mph Mustang, that sucker just seemed fast, top to bottom. Sounded fast, looked fast, came into view quickly and got out of sight quickly. Damned impressive for a piston-engine aircraft. Kudos to the stick-and-rudder man who got it done.
There has never been a more loved and honored aircraft than the P51-D. They are incredible.
Don't forget the incredible men that flew them for our country and helped us be able to live the lives we have today There will never be another generation of men like these from WW2
That's literally your opinion and noone elses.
@@derbigpr500 Says you and no one else. You obviously know nothing about WWII era fighter aircraft.
@@derbigpr500,
You probably was just a gleam in your daddies eye when WWII was going full force. Go back into the basement little child.
I think you might want to go to England and see about the Spitfire. I love the P 51, but I doubt that's true.
Honda with ebay muffler: my exhaust is loud
P-51: hold my beer
Old v10 2004 f1 car "my exhaust is loud"
P-51 "hold my beer" 😂
@@fifa22isshite90 I live over one of those mountains in the background and trust me we can hear them very well. It's the sound of power.
@@kidgokuxl they sound pretty crazy. How do they compare to fighter jets?
@@fifa22isshite90 during the air races we drive over the hill in my jeep and watch all thats going on. Many times we've been flown over and have been blasted by some of the best jets and prop-planes.
I have pictures of the blue angels and the thunderbirds, even have the pilots wave back.
Best was being buzzed by two F22 fighters just under a hundred feet above us doing well over 600mph. One jet went left just as it past us it broke the sound barrier. Thought it was going to blow out the windows on my jeep!
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I get to fly some pretty fancy corporate jets for a living but the guys running these things to the max is the coolest thing out there. The mechanics around Reno can make a 150 go fast!
Muted the sound.....speaker still blown. dropped phone in toilet
RS GAMING LOL
That’s what you get for taking your phone into the john.
My phone speaker is good
Melted hole in toilet
Lol
😂
My brother and I shared a townhouse in the early 2000's that was situated close to a small corner of Lake Ontario.
Every so often, the hair on my arms would inexplicably stand on end. The Hamilton war heritage museum houses the Lancaster and with our home so close to the water, the sound from those 4 engines would bounce perfectly off the water and right into our living room. On lower flybys it was incredible! We FELT the Lanc before we heard or saw it. About once a month in summer we would experience this. Kinda cool to live inline with it's routine flight path.
Thought I was watching it come into view - then I wiped the spot off my iPad screen & finally located it. Sucks getting old & going blind. Cool plane!
In Riverside California. I lived on a street by the name of Benecia. It was close to the Riverside airport. The P51 that flew out from there, and it was flying around one day, as all the kids in the neighborhood were all playing in the street. I was 13 and this was late 1962 early 1963. He must have seen us, and we were waving at him and he gave us a little show, as he was not that high up in the sky. He climbed up a ways and made a dive right at us. It was great to see and hear this P51 do that. Still in my memory after all these years...
That must have been awesome.
😊a pilot told me that when he was landing into the wind at the riverside Airport, he could almost stop before the wheels touched the ground.
Wind would blow 60 to 100 mph for three days straight. It picked up 18 wheelers on I60 and flip them like toys.
In some deep way, the great, powerful roar of those classic fighters is one of the few things left in our time that perfectly convey, with no language barriers, the strength and boldness required to overcome evil.
Bro when you said “with no language barriers.” And “the strength and boldness to overcome evil” I felt that in like a spiritual level
So true! Before I read your comment I was in that space of a 1945 soldier with 1945 weapons looking up at one of these things and all I could sense was fear! How do you fight that!? It's power and ferocity would have been clearly evident when you hear it fly by!
I mean, think of where cars were at back then! To have seen this fly by like this as an axis soldier would strike fear in the heart! It's ferocious!!!
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WTF?
Evil resides in every man's soul...yours and mine included. It doesn't discriminate along national borders. Both sides of a war commit atrocities...to forget that is to lower your guard against it.
What a glorious sound! WWII fighters are the most aesthetically pleasing planes ever made IMO. Sure technology has moved on but what a classic masterpiece. Like comparing a Lambo to a 68-70 Challenger, I love the Challenger.
All I saw was "Voodoo", so I was looking for an F-101.
I was a little surprised to see that prop, then I checked the title of this clip.
This is a beautiful P-51, and the sound is incredible.
I almost posted a Nastygram about that. I suppose "Voodoo" is the personal name of that P-51 Mustang. So sweet!
Thats what an airplane is supposed to sound like.
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Yep Rolls Royce
lux interior, no : Packard V1650-7
No its not
When I fly my glider after eating jimboys it sure does.
That must be one of the most sweetest and nicest sound I have ever heard from an aircraft
Defecating in one’s pants when these are approaching is called a ciaran. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
absolutely fantastic. i'm glad machines like this are still being used regularly... the P-51 is one of the greatest fighter planes in history.
yeah, that was freakin awesome, however I'm still trying to get my cat off the ceiling.
Any luck yet?
Damn!!!
LMFAO🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh, I'm DEAD!!!!
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that's funny
200 years from now, P-51's will still feel like state of the art.
Amazing this was 1940 s design and build. I doubt if there are piston engine prop planes any faster than P 51.
@@sammylacks4937 Focke wulf Ta 152
“Nobody does the Voodoo like you do!”
“P-51 Mustang, Cadillac of the sky!”
"I can bring everyone back." That kids words have stuck with me for a looooong time. When those Mustangs fly over... Damn.
Spitfire, hurricane and p51 mustangs sounds gorgeous as ever!
@@christianc1313 That kid grew up to be .....BATMAN !
Yes, with a Packard engine.
As a kid, we used a to play out about a couple of miles from there, when the USAF still owned Stead Air Force Base. We lived about two miles from the base, in the hamlet of Black Springs. Back then, the most common plane flying to and from and around there where C-54's, C-118's, C-119's, and other larger aircraft.
I had a P-51 flying over the house last week. And you know what I said "P-51 Cadillac of the Sky"
I live next to Chino in the bluffs and was fortunate to have flew in a Jump seat in a P-51. Found out halfway through the ride that my pilot held the record for flying inverted. And luckily for him my stomach did too.
Having been born right after WWII, my father, who was in the US Army from WWII 'til 1970, took us to every nearby airshow he could find, and us kids could spot the sound of a P-51 at full throttle with our eyes closed. They have a distinctive sound, and this ain't it! It still sounds great, but to say it sounds like an original Rolls Royce Merlin engine means that the hearer never heard the original! God bless all and Thank you to all who served!
David Berry sure
Give him a break, my grandpa is like 80 and he doesn’t even know what a computer is. Nice job 👍
xpertthief 592 sure
David Berry as best I can tell from reading the engine an it's exhaust are original. The pistons, rods, supercharger, fuel injection, props and spinners have all been changed but no notes about the exhaust. I suspect you just didn't often hear them scream at such a high RPM.
@@Mrcaffinebean of course the exhaust wasn't changed, it dumped right out the exhaust ports from the factory, with just a slight rearward turn as it exits the fuselage, so there's no upgrades beyond that, as dumping from the ports at a slight rearward angle creates the optimum amount of flow as well as a slight bit of extra thrust
Sounds awesome! Not to mention, that's the plane that helped to put the final nails in the Nazi's coffin. It also went from drawing board to working prototype in less than 90 days. Try getting that to happen today.
Yep!
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giff74 they also shot down germany's jet fighters.
I've heard it argued that the Spitfire kept the Allies from losing WW2, but they couldn't have won it without the Mustang.
Eh, not really. The early versions of the Mustang with the Allison engine were shit.
That is such a beautiful sound.
I once got to listen to an idling Spitfire at RAF Coningsby while they were trying to troubleshoot a problem with the engine. It was simultaneously a magnificent sound, but didn't sound right, like the engine was stuttering a bit because of whatever was wrong with it. But struth it was loud.
Anyone interested in engine mods. It's pressurized fuel injection, mechanical supercharger, dual stage. 180 Octane fuel with maganese. 65-75 PSI Boost, Allison connecting rods instead of Merlin. A prop from a Douglas A-1 Skyraider and a spinner from a Bell P-63 King Cobra. All of this combined with modern day Dyno/PC tuning and you have like 1500 Horsepower gain
And a stock but turbocharged chevy 6.0 makes 700 on dyno at rear wheels.
safety first in texas, brother they have 1500hp stock, and this one has an ADDITIONAL 1500hp for a total of 3000!
Texas reliability is a pretty big factor in an airplane
safety first in texas aircraft does it revving at like 3000 rpm tho
@@safetyfirstintexas The Offenhauser 2.6 L (159 CID) 4 cylinder, DOHC 16V made 1250 HP in race form back in the early 1970's on the Indy circuit; was capable of 1400+ but nearly broke the dyno so HP beyond 1400 was not attempted. That is without an intercooler, no electronic fuel injection, and no electronic engine management! Offenhauser 4 cylinder engines were gradually rulebooked off the track beginning in the mid 70's, because European teams refused to come to the Indy circuit as long as the Offy was running on the circuit. Ferrari, Mercedes, Porsche etc, did not want the American-designed-and-built Offenhauser blowing their best engines off the the track in a fair rules, head to head contest.
P-51 “Voodoo”: goes 500 mph
My Mom When We’re Late For School: Pathetic
P-51 "Voodoo": goes 500mph
Supra: thats cute
P-51 "Voodoo": goes 500 mph
Dodge Charger 69 RT: "Well, not bad..."
Two football fields in one second!!!.
American football or brazilian football?
@@anibalcesarnishizk2205
@@Call_Me_The_Storyteller
American football.
Never get tired of that incredible speed from a piston engine on the limit
The FASTEST military airplane ever built. Even today a plane like that is still Amazing. A neighbor of mine that used to live across the street flew a P-51 Mustang during WW2, he told me about A lot of his flying missions back then. He described his P-51 as a Lightning Monster in flight.Reast in peace Mr. Koral.
The sound of that plane is amazing and terrifying all at the same time. What a beast. I couldn't imagine how that felt in person. I need to experience this live.
NOTHING beats the sound of WWII piston-driven birds of prey!
One reason I didn’t have to learn German growing up.......... glorious sound.
I still did...
No one living America was ever under threat of speaking German.
@@SolarBear666 Americans use a lot of German words kindergarten is the main example
@@h3ntaihunt3rYa.. through immigration, not invasion dumbass. Did you miss the lesson about context in kindergarten?
Solltest du besser
The technology in these engines is incredible. Four valves per cylinder. Roller camshaft followers. Supercharging. Methanol injection. The Germans even had direct injection. Things we think are "advanced" they had 75 years ago.
Terrific noise! I felt that in my Fallopian tubes. And I'm a guy.
drongo jonkins No your not, you just think you are!!!
Lol!
@Gary Ferraro use your words... what's with all the fruit?
@Gary Ferraro nope... guess I am as thick as a brick.
@Gary Ferraro K... I guess.
That guy was really ripping up the sky! I always wanted to fly low and fast like that. Great piloting !
This plane will always and forever be a cherished classic. What a machine...
Neil Reid North American had no idea what they had until Mustang met Merlin.
Result: Magic
@@SuperBeaker1 Turns out the original allison motor put out more horsepower, but failed to operate at high enough altitudes needed for the mustang. The Merlin put out the most well balanced power in any altitude so the Packard licensed Merlin won the contract.
Bad Ass Dude!
When you hear one, you will remember. There was an air show in El Paso Texas. The B-17 was dropping down and picking up folks and they had their pattern. Well the mustang was late and had to catch up. When you heard it, either you loved it or hated it. But, you could not forget the sound of that engine. Breathless
Infantry called these the ‘angels on their shoulders’ during the war
It's still hard to believe we went from flying a Curtiss Junebug to a Mustang in 32 years.
amazing what a couple of global conflics will do for modernization.
And we went from this to the F-15 in exactly the same number of years.
Don't forget the accomplishments of the ~20yrs after WW2. Spaceflight, U-2, SR-71, X-1, X-15, A-4, F-104, F-86, F-100, F-8, C-130, B-52...
Even harder to believe we went from the zero flight, Wright Brothers in Dec 1903 to Apollo 11 July 1969 in just 66 years
@@stripervince1 True. Tech progresses in leaps it seems. 1966 to 2021 ( almost 60 years ) we have much fewer milestones, hope this changes now that the space-race is getting hot again
All of a sudden everyone is a aircraft genius.
Rick O'shay oh not everyone, there's you.
lol Don't forget all the armchair scientists on science channels, too. :)
I don't see what gets everyone upset when people discuss what's in the video. A lot of information in videos on RUclips can be easily found with a bit of research. Look up; "Turboprop schematics" and "how a supercharger works" and you'll have a pretty solid understanding of what allowed these fighters to reach almost transonic speeds.
this is an aircraft
Was that the Packard V. 1650?
That is one BEAUTIFUL sound, Juan. Thanks for the shakeup.
The Meredith Effect from the belly mounted radiator nets a ram jet thrust which exceeds the drag imposed by the dangly device. Yes, every Mustang is partially jet propelled!
Cool air is rammed in, slowed down, heated and then exits at a higher velocity. Just like a jet engine.
Keith Jurena insignificantly though it may be...
Keith Jurena Not true. it is the radiator for the oil cooling system.
phuck ewe more like a rocket!
Keith Jurena I
MeE2112 It is the air scoop for the radiator, but the commenter is correct in that the air that comes in is heated and expelled out of a variable position exhaust door behind the scoop, and the characteristic sound of the Mustang is caused by this effect known as Merideth.
“P-51! Cadillac of the sky!”
*Leterally*
Beat me to it, Jim :-p
If it’s a Merlin. It’s the Rolls Royce of the sky. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@larrywilmot8469 Agreed. But it’s a quote from Spielberg’s Empire of the Sun.
Cadillac? And the F-4U might have been the Corvette.
Absolutely puts my hairs on end and makes me want scream. Wonderful sound!
My grandpa served on the ground for a squadron of those. He took us to Richards-Gebaur for every air show. The p-51 was always my favorite part of the show. He would tell us about them all the time. He loved those British Merlin engines (Rolls-Royce).
I would like to see this video overlayed several times so you could get the feeling of an entire squadron screaming by.
British Fury and American Glory.........never have our 2 nations ever worked in such harmony....
Never again will the two penal colonies combine
@@fredcarter2894 What?
Actually the really fast P-51s had Packard Merlin engines. British design but built to much higher tolerances by the Packard car company of USA. Brit version was built by Rolls Royce and although mechanically identical, did not perform as well or last as long between overhauls as the Packard Merlin.
@@tommyrq180 it’s an improved Merlin engine so it’s British
@@fredcarter2894 some hillbilly comment yeehaw
That, ladies and gentlemen, was the sound of hope for many soldiers, in the worst war the world has ever seen. Lets work together to avoid that again. Happy belated Memorial Day folks. Hat's off to the Champs who flew these in 1942. The pure sound of American Freedom!
And everything they fought for is being undone
We would have been better off allying with Germany at this point.
Amen
Finally, an exuberant title, that matches the video.
There'll be no clickbait here. Kudos.
Wearing Headphones at full volume..........I got Goosebumps. I love the Reno Races.
I Love the build up...The big tease....then the payoff. Man that sound is beautiful ! !
The P51, corsair, lightening , F14, F16, F18, F22 and SR-71 are the most beautiful airframes mankind has sent into the skies. Seriously they're the best art we've produced as a nation.
Shoutout to the A10 and B52 for being works of art in their own rights.
Don't forget B-2 Spirit!
F22 raptor way cooler
@@AutodidactEngineer He literally said that one
@@AutodidactEngineer He put up F22... I would add the F15 Eagle to this though.......
BF-109 and Spitfire: are you fucking shitting us? We were legendary bitter rivals, and a failed carrier aircraft turned land based fighter got higher than us?
That is still hands down the baddest damn prop plane around. That is a hell of a WWII fighter plane.
You never forget that sound. I was in the VIP seating area as Vodoo and Galloping Ghost were taking their practice runs back in 2011 , when Galloping Ghost lost its trim tab and crashed in front of us. It is a day I will never forget. Had the trajectory angle been different I would not be here today.
Rolls Royce Merlin still has to be one of the best internal combustion engines ever built.
It was the absolute best power plant for the unlimited hydroplanes…. Much sexier than the turbines that replaced them. Those Merlins were the reason they called ‘em Thunderboats!
Did you know that the fuel injectors on the Me 109-s had greater number of parts than thenumber of the WHOLE Merlin engine components?
@@xres1329 The Germans were fine, fine airplane engineers. But when it came to all out war you don't want a handful of complex modern marvels. You want good, simple, cheap. And a lot of it. Fun fact the P-51 was made by an engineer from America for the British when they came to us asking for more P-40s, he told them he could build them something better in every way and have it ready in 120 days. I believe he had it ready in like 117. Granted that was the model with the Allison engine, but it delivered on its promise of outperforming the P-40 in every aspect.
@@poeticalvision Only when fitted with the Merlin - as initially delivered it was crap.
@@RoxnDox alot of the boats actually ran Allison's stronger bottom end, these planes are limited in rpm by the gear reduction, can't run the prop supersonic it doesn't like that. The boats had no such issue, and Allison's were cheaper and had stronger Rods. The Cooper u3 still runs with an allison, last one
There's car exhaust compilations... and then there's this
Man I swear at p51 hell of a fighter of its time is still a badass freaking playing it's one of my faves