P-51 MUSTANG, the American Fighter And Fighter-Bomber that was key in winning the war
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2022
- The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang is an American long-range, single-seat fighter and fighter bomber used during World War II and the Korean War, among other conflicts. The Mustang was designed in April 1940 by a team headed by James H. Kindelberger of North American Aviation (NAA) in response to a requirement of the British Purchasing Commission. The Purchasing Commission approached North American Aviation to build Curtiss P-40 fighters under license for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Rather than build an old design from another company, North American Aviation proposed the design and production of a more modern fighter. The prototype NA-73X airframe was rolled out on 9 September 1940, 102 days after the contract was signed, and first flew on 26 October.
The Mustang was designed to use the Allison V-1710 engine, which had limited high-altitude performance in its earlier variants. The aircraft was first flown operationally by the RAF as a tactical-reconnaissance aircraft and fighter bomber (Mustang Mk I). Replacing the Allison with a Rolls-Royce Merlin resulted in the P-51B/C (Mustang Mk III) model, and transformed the aircraft's performance at altitudes above 15,000 ft (4,600 m) (without sacrificing range), allowing it to compete with the Luftwaffe's fighters. The definitive version, the P-51D, was powered by the Packard V-1650-7, a license-built version of the two-speed, two-stage-supercharged Merlin 66, and was armed with six .50 caliber (12.7 mm) AN/M2 Browning machine guns.
From late 1943, P-51Bs and P-51Cs (supplemented by P-51Ds from mid-1944) were used by the USAAF's Eighth Air Force to escort bombers in raids over Germany, while the RAF's Second Tactical Air Force and the USAAF's Ninth Air Force used the Merlin-powered Mustangs as fighter-bombers, roles in which the Mustang helped ensure Allied air superiority in 1944. The P-51 was also used by Allied air forces in the North African, Mediterranean, Italian, and Pacific theaters. During World War II, Mustang pilots claimed to have destroyed 4,950 enemy aircraft.
At the start of the Korean War, the Mustang, by then redesignated F-51, was the main fighter of the United States until jet fighters, including North American's F-86, took over this role; the Mustang then became a specialized fighter-bomber. Despite the advent of jet fighters, the Mustang remained in service with some air forces until the early 1980s. After the Korean War, Mustangs became popular civilian warbirds and air racing aircraft.
North American Aviation (NAA) was already supplying its T-6 Texan (known in British service as the "Harvard") trainer to the RAF but was otherwise underused. NAA President "Dutch" Kindelberger approached Self to sell a new medium bomber, the North American B-25 Mitchell. Instead, Self asked if NAA could manufacture P-40s under license from Curtiss. Kindelberger said NAA could have a better aircraft with the same Allison V-1710 engine in the air sooner than establishing a production line for the P-40.
Specifications (P-51D Mustang)
3-view drawing of P-51D Mustang
Nose of P-51 Gunfighter
Wing with three .50 caliber machine guns
Data from Erection and Maintenance Manual for P-51D and P-51K, P-51 Tactical Planning Characteristics & Performance Chart, The Great Book of Fighters, and Quest for Performance
General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 32 ft 3 in (9.83 m)
Wingspan: 37 ft (11 m)
Height: 13 ft 4.5 in (4.077 m) tail wheel on the ground, vertical propeller blade
Wing area: 235 sq ft (21.8 m2)
Aspect ratio: 5.83
Airfoil: NAA/NACA 45-100
Empty weight: 7,635 lb (3,463 kg)
Gross weight: 9,200 lb (4,173 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 12,100 lb (5,488 kg) 5,490
Fuel capacity: 269 US gal (224 imp gal; 1,020 l)
Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0163
Drag area: 3.80 sqft (0.35 m²)
Powerplant: 1 × Packard (Rolls Royce) V-1650-7 Merlin 12-cylinder liquid-cooled engine, 1,490 hp (1,110 kW) at 3,000 rpm 1,720 hp (1,280 kW) at WEP
Propellers: 4-bladed Hamilton Standard constant-speed, variable-pitch, 11 ft 2 in (3.40 m) diameter
Performance
Maximum speed: 440 mph (710 km/h, 383 kn)
Cruise speed: 362 mph (583 km/h, 315 kn)
Stall speed: 100 mph (160 km/h, 87 kn)
Range: 1,650 mi (2,660 km, 1,434 nmi) with external tanks
Service ceiling: 41,900 ft (12,800 m)
Rate of climb: 3,200 ft/min (16 m/s)
Lift-to-drag: 14.6
Wing loading: 39 lb/sq ft (190 kg/m2)
Power/mass: 0.18 hp/lb (300 W/kg)
Recommended Mach limit 0.8
Armament
Guns: 6 × .50 caliber (12.7mm) AN/M2 Browning machine guns with 1,840 total rounds (380 rounds for each on the inboard pair and 270 rounds for each of the outer two pairs)
Rockets: 6 or 10 × 5.0 in (127 mm) T64 HVAR rockets (P-51D-25, P-51K-10 on)
Bombs: 1 × 100 lb (45 kg) or 250 lb (110 kg) bomb or 500 lb (230 kg) bomb on hardpoint under each wing
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My Pa was a P-51 pilot in WW2, Pacific Arena. Only 21 years old . Brave man
Probably the most moving words from the pilot who every time he came under ground fire and the tracer rounds were heading his way: "Like being in the dentist's chair, it won't hurt for long". Brave, brave men.
these Documentaries are Pure Gold. the best part is the footage of our HEROS who survived and hearing their stories that move every emotion including tears for those who didn't survive. I tip my hat with the utmost respect to the World's Greatest Generation. Most are gone now, but God Bless your Survivors and Family.
The timbre in his voice …
Missouri.
@jack tattis it hurts for a long time if your gonads are blown off by a ME 109 K. Last words - f---aaaaa rk !
This is a fantastic video..I loved every minute of it! I've gone 400m.p.h. 20 ft. off the ground in a 1944 P51D as we were coming out of a shallow dive in a rural area near Findley Ohio over a friend's private grass airfield...I gave him 300 dollars for gas for the ride which lasted about 25 minutes...It was the best 300 bucks I ever spent! I've never seen the ground go by so FAST, before or since....What a ride!
These veteran airmen are 100% badass. Hearing their documented stories and the emotions directly from them is a great insight into the greatest generation. No bullshit, no politics, just one common mission achieved by working together. What a time.
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why would they talk politics? thats just everyone today doing that
War is politics.
This modern "no politics" obsession is idiotic, short sighted, and absolutely blind to reality. The biggest political question of the time was should America enter the war. Everything about WW2 is drenched in politics. You can't just separate that because you want to justify your modern political apathy. History doesn't work like that.
absolutely the best video on P51 action...the testimonies of the pilots are priceless - "its a long time - seconds" - just love their stories -thanks !!!
A fantastic tribute to a beautiful airplane, flown by the bravest men of the greatest generation.
I am from Uruguay, 85. I was privileged to see P-51s in real service with the Uruguayan Air Force in the early fifties. The UAF (FAU) had about 15 Mustangs bought from the US. I often spotted them overhead at high altitude, leaving white trails behind. Somehow all P-51s were sold to Bolivia when F-80 and T-33 jets were acquired by our Air Force. But I still recall the buzzing of the Merlin-Packard engines.
As a kid born in 1971, and a father who was in the 126th Air Refueling Wing and enlisted from 1966-96! The first time I saw the P-51 at an open house event at O'hare Airport, that was my favorite airplane. To this day, I try to make it to every single air show near me, it's the one plane that I must see!
The beauty of a Mustang is like no other aircraft I've ever seen.....
I truly enjoyed hearing the memories of those brave men who were privledged to fly them in combat.
God bless them all!
Mustang is a legend that will not be forgotten long after retirement and even after
I was an Huey 1,2 & 3 pilot and would have love to fly p-51. What a great ship it was. Thank you all for your service for us.
those pilots are just wonderful characters so authentic testimonies...thanks
Thankyou for mentioning Rolls Royce contribution to turning a good plane into a great plane. I've only ever once had the pleasure of seeing one in the air. A beautiful sight and sound. Unforgettable.
Another great documentary. My Uncle Dale Spencer was an ace in a P-51 flying escort missions over Europe. Amazing stories. Great plane, flown by great men.
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That’s amazing, they were a whole different breed of American. I couldn’t have more respect for him.
Bomber crews….the bravest of the brave.
If the Krauts didn't kill you - your evil handling contraption might !
My dad spent five years in the Pacific and loved his jug. They didn't get any mustangs he said because they were mainly in Europe. They transitioned into lightings as a surveillance unit but ended back with his loved jug. He said both the 38s and 47 jugs they were just fine there. He flew escort on some missions were the Japanese ran from his lightings and they had no problem catching them usually. The jug may be the best by him and his buddies/pilots. I was blessed in learning to fly by him and his buds.
P-51s were in the Pacific especially the Allison models.
I am forever greatful for our country's fighting men and women who gave their all. Lest we never forget.
These planes may have been magnificent but every one of those men , from bombers to fighters were hero’s and at such a young age ! ❤
It has that beautiful, iconic fighter-plane look. Such a cool looking airplane.
The best propeller airplane I've ever flown.
All three of my grandfathers flew it and two of them were aces. Great to live vicariously through such heroes.
Your math is bad. You have 2 grandfathers. Your dads dad and your moms dad, that's it.
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@@mattjbg7025 Still makes no sense, that would mean you have 2 + 2, even then that's a stretch.
@Roo H you pedantic little pr--k ! My mum was a butterfly girl - only the Lord knows all my daddies ! At least one of them was from Tierra del Fuego - judging from my dappled skin and green hair ?
Three? I got two.
This documentary really makes you think but I can't forget that last comment "I was 20 and had the time off my life". That's youth for you !
The P-51 is the sexiest fighter ever built in my opinion. The Mustang looks fast just sitting still in the flight line. Absolute marriage of art, engineering and science.
My grandfather was an amazing man who flew and survived. He was a no shit war hero.
A MK 14 Spitfire Would run rings around the Mustang in most parameters - vastly faster climb - higher altitude - and cannon and more agile !
P51 MUSTANG .. Awesome
Design .. engineers and
Technician s ... 👍
@18:14 - this sums it all up. "...the enemy was defeated, in our mind, when we crawled into the cockpit."
The P51 sucked until it was mated with the Merlin... When Packard started manufacturing the merlin under license, it was game-on. So many awesome fighter aircraft: spitfire, hurricane, p38, p47, and more... Each had a place. The greatest generation! Thank God for them all!
My father flew the P-51 with the 354th FG from a base first in Britain and later Nancy, France. The Yanks by that time had the good fortune of being able to extensively train stateside in relative peace. They had air superiority by then but it was still a dangerous business.
RAF pilots were also trained in huge numbers in the US. IIRC there were around 6 flight schools for training RAF fighter and bomber pilots.
So - he was a Nancy boy ?
@@jacktattis did you fall asleep?
I originally thought that the fighters were the aggressive arm but my father told me that the bombers take the fight to where the enemy don't want.
What men go through during war, i don't remember hearing them talk much about feeling, i don't blame them, they have nothing to feel bad about, they wouldn't be human if they didn't, I'm very proud of all of them, the women at home went through hell, thank god for all of them, very proud of my country n it sad to see our young not seeming to care about the American way, i do and I'm proud of our history...
I've seen a few low passes of P-51s at various air shows, and it never, ever gets old. It's like every single horsepower of that Merlin engine is pounding you in the chest when the tip shock waves reach you. Wow. That gentleman's voice cracked a bit when he described the sound as "like nothing else." I felt the same way, hearing him say that.
When everyone was drooling over the spitfire I fell for the P51, 65 years later I still love the mustang and yes I kno it’s the merlin that made the plane it became
In my humble opinion: They are both unique in their own way (as most ww2 planes are). The Spit would be the charming gentleman, while the P51 is the rock'n'roller (Brits vs US). One of personal favorites would the Dehavilland Mosquito (not a fighter as such, I know).
@@phunkeehone All three were icons and magnificent aircraft in their own way. Each played a basically different roll at different times but all had the Merlin engine in common.
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Absolutely, and it can't be denied that the Brits did an excellent job with the RR Merlin engine. I'm not much of an mechanic (only know basic stuff), but from what I know, it really worked wonders with upgrading fx the p51 to what it became. Liquid cooling instead of air cooling, etc. So hats off to the Brits.
@@phunkeehone Many thanks old boy !!!!
My father was born in '28, in boot camp when the War ended and missed shipping out by 15 days. he went on to become a History Professor and my favorite books in his library were the 3 oversized Time/Life WWII Books that were 50% photos. He loved Airplanes and to the day he died, 3 Airplane Models of WW1 and WWII planes he made as a teen still adorned his desk. In the 90's i gave my retired folks train tickets to come visit me in NorCal and my biggest regret is not taking him for a ride on a WWII Plane that was offered in the Stockton area at the time. My 2 older brothers went into teachining like my father, but I'm an Enginerd and never appreciated the Value of History until i quit chasing the almighty dollar. Thanks to all for giving us these Videos and for the History Lessons Made FUN. Never Forget the World's Greatest Generation....
Thank you and God bless your family.
@@Dronescapes Thank You Sir, We've been blessred.
@@cacornhusker2940 So God was on our side - is that a fair suck of the sauce bottle ? A fair slice of the pineapple ? No wonder we won !
I am the son of a South Vietnamese navigator during the Vienam warWell kudos to those pilots whose lives were lost in WW2...we wont have enough words to thank you for your ultimate sacrifice. God Bless your family!
Definitely the Greatest Generation
Thanks to all the fighter pilots I wish I was growing up at that time
Don't forget the Redtails
I have a lot of respect for all of the men who fought in the wars throughout history
Imagine drinking a beer in Berlin, looking up and seeing 1,000 trails of the bombers ...
12:30 - "All i could think of was he's got plenty of time to say his prayers on the way down,"
Such an accurate yet horrifying description of a young man's final minutes. You knew he had ABSOLUTELY no chance of survival. If that was me freefalling, i sure would've been hoping i was passed out unconscious before i hit the ground. Jeez.
You dont often think about,how young these guys were.And they were young
Meiner persönlichen Meinung nach waren Mustang-Kampfflugzeuge eine Legende in der Luft
The American P-51 was a great fighter. Late to the party, but eventually got in the fight. Excellent range. Not great at high altitude. Thank god we got the RR Merlin in. We sure needed them on those runs to Berlin.
Sadly American now is on the verge of Germany 1935 with Hitler 2.0 in waiting. Have we learned nothing?
Probably the best aviation doc I have viewed to date. Superb work!
❤❤❤ Georg from Europe, Thanks, Thanks, Pilots ❤ Tschechoslovakai vrom Prag
I've known a man that was in the air crew of a bomber, I guess a pilot, he flew a little private plane and a helicopter, his name was Dink Deussen I seen all his photographs in his hanger, he always chewed on a cigar and said to the girls how you doing Blondie. What a brave man, all of these men. I just wish I could go thank him again!
I like that they gave the P-47 it's due respect in this P-51 documentry
The P-47 had done the heavy lifting before the Mustang got there.
It got no respect, The British pilots laughed at it when they first seen it and wanted nothing to do with it. They made jokes about it and called it a worthless pig. Did British pilots ever even fly P47's ? @@u2mister17
The P-47 was faster in a dive and was much more suited to ground attack missions because of the radial engine that was so tough to bring down ,unlike the P51 in-line V12 which could be brought down by a single bullet if it hit 1 of the coolant lines(it being water-cooled, not air-cooled like the 47) it also had EIGHT 50 cal. guns instead of the 6 on the Mustang...My father was a 2nd lieutenant in WW2 and was pinned down by a German machine gun nest during the "Battle of the Bulge"in real trouble when a couple P47's came in and tore them a new A-hole....I guess I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the P47.....(although the P51's my favorite fighter plane!)
@@u2mister17 You are not giving the Spitfire its due respect. After all, Goring said to Hitler, give me the Spitfire to win the war. And it was the spitfire that broke the German Luftwaffe's back during the battle of Britain. But in the end, as great and important as the planes were, it was the men flying then that made the difference. Even the canvas covered Hurricane got an incredible number of kills against the far superior ME-109. That was definitely due to the pilots rather than the aircraft.
The best generation of all time. Thank You for what you've done for America & allowing my family & families across America to live the life we live. God Bless.
My God. Flying war machines at 20 years old 💪
P 47’s
P 38’s
P40’s
P 51’s
We needed every last one 😊
Thank God for all those pilots, the war in the air was becoming the #1 part of war in general, as we know today, but back then it was the ground war, which is and always will be important, but air superiority is vital. 🙏🇺🇸🇬🇧
Big Respect to the pilots and respect to everyone...the crews, the engineers, etc that were brave and fought with honor. This is a fantastic doc. I got choked up even. Plus - i never thought about it. But wow - 10,000 guys in the sky - flying everyday!!! Also Army fighting, Naval battles, submaries....i mean...Geezz I just cant imagine World War II....the scale of it. what it was really like
P51 the result of the co-operation between the United Sates and the United Kingdom. Produced an unprecedented fighter of which its capabilities were somewhat overlooked. Richard Candelaria, just one of many kegacys of pilots, that shared its outstanding performance
You have to respect the hell out of these airmen
Brave men indeed.
Let us never forget
Outstanding documentary. Oral history pilot interviews, cinematography, writing, all marvelous. I wonder though, for those VLR missions, if the P-51 had an autopilot.
The most beautiful machine ever invented. Thanks from St.Paul.Minnesota.
The wing design is so much more advanced to other comparable piston engine fighters
I remeber living in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and one day i could here this plane approaching overhead and I actually ran out of my house to catch a view and sure enough it was a Beautiful P-51D Mustang with that AMAZING Roar of the RR Merlin engine! Nothing sounds like that!
Well I actually saw some of the last operational F-51's(P-51) in the world . While visiting the Dominican Republic back in the early 1980's their Air Force still flew the F-51's . We where playing golf at the Casa de Campo resort in la Romana and where watching them flying loops over the golf course . Well one pilot screwed up and wasn't quite high enough and buried his plane into the fairway. Sad but true .
Kept it straight.
General Trujillo bought the Mustard P51’s and the Dominican air force became the most formidable force within the Caribbean area.
These men will never be forgot! America!
My uncle (a P-51 pilot in the USAAF - then part of of the us army) once told me that he flew many types of planes during ww2 and the P-51 was his favorite.
....I HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE...WHAT BRAVE PILOTS....
These MEN were actually MEN!!! I will always stand back in awe for these real heroes!
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Let's see you land a TomCat on a tossing Carrier at night in a rain squall - near death experience ! And women can do that as well !
Little wonder it was called the cadilac of the sky with that quality Rolls Royce engine !! ✌️💯🇬🇧🇺🇲
They went from 300 miles with the thunder bolt too 2000 miles with the mustang ! Thats amazing
Ya it wasn't that simple.....The USAAF didn't allow pursuit aircraft like the p47 to have drop tanks initially even though it was capable from very early on. This always gets barried. Fast forward to late 43' and butts need to be covered for the terrible bomber and life losses in the bombing campaign....and to this day we're told that thank heavens the 51 came along.....the truth is two fold...The p51 was fantastic by 1944' but the P47 " in 1943 could have gone much further and been far more affective had they equipped it properly.
What's more amazing was that the p47n did the longest escort missions
100%! Facts!
Yes the best fighter plane, with the Mosquito the best fighter / bomber! The Packard Merlin Engine also a tribute to US manufacturing and collaboration with the Brits. A great documentary!
@@jacktattis The Tempest was more powerful, however the Mustang was used for long range bomber escort because it had better fuel economy. Spitfires had initially been honed to take off quickly, after the home guard radar identified incoming hostiles, blast them and get back to base. The Mustang p51 designed as a escort and high altitude fighter, with ground straffing capability.
@@jacktattis Hi Jack. As I am involved with moulded products. I wonder whether the merlin and Gryphon engines / the Packard Merlin should be recast? with modern technology this would involve scanning an existing engine, then casting and making all the components. the greatest issue with veteran aircraft remaining airworthy is that after 80 or so years it may not be safe to assume the airframe and components are airworthy? Crowd funding to cast new blocks out of lighter stronger aluminium. There is a huge demand for Mustangs and Spitfires if an exact replica could be produced?
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Packard is a defunct company and i wonder the intellectual property rights on an invention like a Merlin or Gryphon Engine only last 25 years? Alternatively it could be done ion collaboration with Rolls Royce, with participants making parts around the globe?
@@jacktattis”Spitfire was king” Doubtful, but go on... “dived as far”. Flawless logic right here 😂
@@hans-1940 The German Tanks in Russia other than the STUG were complicated and needed an overhaul every 12 hours running time. When the Russians T34 in larger numbers could not hit a target, even at close range had trouble destroying a German Tank. They found by accident that after they could make the German Tanks run around and need a service, the German's had to abandon their tanks in short order. The German air resupply of Stalingrad was a total failure, because the German luftwaffe did not have good heavy lift transports like the DC-3 which was not a technological marvel other than being able to maintain level flight on one engine, it was a robust workhorse. The Heinkel 111 was advanced during the Spanish Civil war, but obsolete by the time of the Battle of Britain. The German engineers produced the Bismarck, a massive ship and a massive obsolete target with the Tirpitz a huge misallocation of manufacturing resource. German technology included the Heavy Panzer tank which was over complicated and also broke down after a few hours, Had they mass produced the STUG, a robust utilitarian tank, they would have won leningrad and Stalingrad and occupied Moscow. Germany produced the V1 and V2 pulse jet and rocket and the gyroscope which was a technological breakthrough. Not enough of these to change the course of the war, and not accurate enough. The ME Jet was also a marvel, but too late and still having teething issues and not effectively deployed and with all the pilots lost, not enough to fly the jets. England did have jet squadrons at wars end, not used in WWII other than small engagements. Germany produced high technology but low quality, low endurance tanks. The final versions of the submarines were technically brilliant, but not produced in a timely manner and most of the Sub crews had been blown out of the water, with radar the Subs lost their advantage. The ME109 was superior when it was first deployed but soon eclipsed by new versions of Spitfire and the Mosquito, mustang aircraft. the English and USA had much better bomber aircraft and developed the Flying Fortress which was a technological marvel, but also had many technological flaws. Britain had the tempest, but the most formidable plane in fact was again the robust and reliable Hurricane, not as fast or manoeuvrable as the ME109 or other German fighters, but easy to fly and easy to mass produce, also there were 600 more of these as the Hawker company began production without a confirmed air ministry order. the Bismarck was sunk by a torpedo bi-plane. So then as now reliability in the field, mass production and tactics proved more important than technological prowess. The jet engine, rocket propulsion, submarine advances, radar and other technologies were quickly incorporated into the victorious countries arsenal. Hitler missed his opportunity to develop the nuclear devices of the Manhattan project. Without the Jewish scientists Germanies war effort was less advanced than the USA and britain by war's end. Hitler had one half completed aircraft carrier. America had 8 or so when Pearl Harbour was attacked, and was building dozens by wars end. Britain had a number of aircraft carriers which made a difference.
This is a very important film to many of us; to listen to those who flew. And those of two nations who were responsible for creating such a remarkable weapon.
I am a retired professional photographer who sees and photographs Mustang P51Ds flying every year at Jones’ Beach Long Island air shows. They are photogenic in spades.
Don Blakeslee: what a legend. RIP, sir.
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P51 mustang is just Amazing, the sound and its power
I can imagine these guys in a bar with a few beers under their belts. Each one bragging and in the faces of the others. The fact that they are still alive, have some stories to relate, and ready at moments notice to put their life on the line kept their ego fed to the point of an immediate brawl with another of their own side. I’m sure the MPs had to be tough guys too, hoping the guy they had to arrest was drunk enough to subdue. LOL! I can just hear the volume in the bar escalating as the arguing and cockiness escalated and the fists got going.
Glamorous Glennis.
The Mustang P-51D variant was and still is an amazing fighter. If it had existed early in the war I believe it would have changed history as we know it
No matter how good the machine was or who made which part best, it was nothing without a well trained man inside, filled with confidence, courage & above all, competitiveness. The best fighter pilots hate losing. At anything.
Context is king. The P-51 would not have been a long-range fighter if it wasn't for the British RR engine.
The alison engine was massively underpowered. Think how good the P40 could have been with a merlin in it instead.
The engine isn't what gave it the range - it's enormous fuel capacity is.
The laminar flow wings definitely played a part. If it were the engine the spitfire wouldn’t have the worst range of fighters in the war
Thats the whole point ! The americans and the british and also the russians working together to win that war , even tho some people hate to admit , the russians sacrificed so many of their people we wouldnt have won without all 3 working together
@@gradymcgowan6764 smaller fuel tanks lol
Fantastic and emotionally strong. Thank you from Belgium 🇧🇪
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The P-47 may have "gulped" fuel, but it still had better range than any other single-engined fighter and actually did do escort duty along with the P-38 until there were enough late model Mustangs to take over. It had around 900 mile range, not 300, and the P-38 could go even further. The Mustang being developed because of the need of bomber escort is false. The british had already suggested replacing the allison engine with their engines after testing from the very beginning. What really changed the bombing campaign wasn't fighter escort, it was sending in the fighters first, THEN sending the bombers after, with the defending fighters already dealing with challenging the attackers or risk getting strafed on the runways.
400 prowling fighters (with long range tanks) and highly trained jockeys- flying inferior aircraft will defeat even a tiny number of unreliable ME 262s or anything else flown by children - if one goes off on a shooting spree - just wait for it to come home - then pounce - locate their bases with PR XIX SPITFIRES- then bye bye Heinz !
The P47 when the know all hot shots and politicians finally allowed the long range tanks - was equal in range to the P51 - with the added bonus - superior pilot survival - and 8 50s. Many readers might think that our dear leaders gave the brave men the best equipment- that ain't necessarily so ! Any intelligent person can realise that slow cumbersome bombers with no matter how may 50s or even cannon - can't survive large numbers of enemy fighters diving passes with cannon - then climbing up and doing it again - the top scoring fighter pilots didn't involve themselves in low speed - low altitude cat fights - however- many aces still ended in heaven - killed sometimes by their own heap of junk and it's treacherous behaviour !
There I was at 40,000ft PR XIX. Day light- no guns - range 1550 miles cimbing towards me a 262 - hopefully he can't get this high - I'll head towards 50,000ft - done it before - he'll head back to his base - the P51s will be flying circles -waiting like vultures - pouncing - one more of the hundreds shot down ! Adenoids vunder veapon ?
When the Yanks and the British use their engineering skills together they produce machines like the P51 and the AC Cobra . Respect
Wow, what an AIRCRAFT! John P.
Thank you! Best video about the P-51 Mustang that I’ve ever seen.
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what a time to be alive. Thanks for the video.
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little buddies...angel on our side...
thank you for all that served. hopefully it was volunteered.
What a great documentary. Thanks so much for the upload ❤ 🙏
Just discovered your channel and I love it. Thank you for so much quality entertainment.
Thanks for watching Neil!
thanks for sharing this part of history. the scary thoughts of leaving a plane with a parachute that did not deploy and end of life event..
My Nana and Pop were children in occupied Holland. She told me the story of being on a train that was buzzed by an Allied Fighter near the end of the war. The train stopped and everyone got out and ran into the field before the fighter shot the Engine up.
Excellent presentation. Thankfully “Miss Helen “
was a available making it possible to add attending footage for continuous footage. Their is footage of Kermit Weeks Mustang Preddy/Cripes A’Mighty 3rd Preddy’s last 328th FS “Cripes A’Mighty”
available. Sorry no mention of Major Preddy as having the distinction of being highest scoring P-51 Ace serving in
WW -2. Thank you for
an excellent documentary about the “Mustang”’
Glad you enjoyed it!
5:06 - During my flight training, I was told that if the pilot you're talking to doesn't believe they're the best pilot on Earth, don't get in a plane with them.
What amazes me is in the span of 40 years how much the airplane improved to a highly precision machine.
The P51 is the greatest fighter plane ever built, nothing came close to P51
great video. Respect to men and machine.
The early marks of Halifax's were dangerous because they went into an inverted spin if dived etc. Actually you mentioned that towards the end. Cheshire stated there was an awareness of this even at the time. The mkIii version in the end cured most problems they also had a longer wingspan when the rounded wings were added. Improving ceiling which was poor in the early versions
That's what happens when countries work together.Wow!!! What an airplane!!!
Goering said that he "knew the war was lost when he saw Mustangs over Berlin".
Great plane! As is the F4u Corsair. The Corsair wins for me, though.
Great video!
Beautiful.
Thanks for sharing really touched me
Glad you enjoyed it
Much respect
Once they put the RR Merlin engine in it, the P-51 became a beast.
I love it! Excellent video..