P-51 Cadillac of the skies!

[thatblabbermouthcat]

@nutster9000. Not a Merlin old son the P-51 was originally powered by an Allison engine and later by a Packard V-1650. Packard took the Merlin and turned into the engine it should have been. The old Spittie was good but the P-51 was better.The Merlin was good but the Packard was better. God bless America.

[visioneerone]

This is awesome.

Fuck CGI.

[P47ThunderboltJug]

this is one of my favorite films.

[wysiwyg2006]

love this film, very underrated sadly

[afes10]

Maravillosa escena. Pero un hombre tan mayor no pilotaría un caza en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tendría 25 como máximo. Se nota que es el dueño del Mustang quien aparece en la película.

[stragulp]

maybe the best scene of a great film...

[yanelijah]

Christian Bale is my favorite actor...I've watched this movie when I was just a kid and now I'm 24, and this was the first movie that has ever made me cry. it goes through the heart...and it will be in there forever!=)

[dopycman]

@yanelijah i agree iam 18 and this film is the only thing that makes me cry nothing else

[PilotoMAF]

This video has just triggered my desire of flight.

I was just like him when I was a child. Good old days! =)

[snakedoctor262]

i always get goosebumbs when i see the mustang scene

[ricardinhomascaro]

Rolls Royce Packard Merlin V12 27.0L Supercharger...I would love to die.

listening to his symphony.

SOUND OF REAL HORSE POWER !!!!

[dandandamattressman]

"boy......difficult boy"

[bennyc333]

0:25 to 0:55 is without doubt, one of the best 30 seconds in film making.

[BeachBoysJanDean1]

One of my all time favorite scenes in motion pictures. Right up there with some classic scenes from Bridge on the River Kwai.

[TheZeWaffle]

I think the Grumman F6F Hellcat is better than the mustange.

[lilred36781]

@TheZeWaffle u got ur head up ur ass then

[XTCyMAN]

@TheZeWaffle Yep in your dreams...for the love of god one is a race car and the other a Van...

[Southernburrito]

Awesome!

[MsFlyinglady]

The Merlin engine=the sound of freedom!

[StudentOfObjectivism]

漢字があって、びっくりした。

[FirstFlight271]

I like how they slow it down . lol airplane porn ahaha

[Cav89]

@FirstFlight271 I do a lot of work with WWII vets and help run airshows. Fighter plane porn...LOL!!!

[laurenoe]

One of the single best scenes in the history of Cinema!

[southparkfan2717]

There are you all happy. He's not speaking in a raspy voice (everyone needs to just shut up about that).

[thc024]

lil cheesy lol

[thc024]

lil cheesy lol

[anonymous1883]

i am the batman

[SuperRandomfish]

This movie is life changing

[November10th1775USMC]

A young patrick bateman.

[777juggy]

couple of years later he will become the ''Dark Knight"

[CapKorzeniowski]

- this gives me the good old, but weird boner

[cosmicdingo]

Chris Bale b4 he became an asshole--

[TheBadMoJoe]

This always gives me shivers and puts a lump in my throat.

[riderpoet]

This is simply the single greatest flying sequence that has ever been filmed.

[tedfreeway]

I kind of feel like the movie should have ended around here. It seemed to drag on after this point.

[JamesGod08]

@tedfreeway No, it should have ended after "Jim get off the roof!!" with a bomb being dropped on him

[MarmiteMan4]

Hell yeah!

[swilkins1984]

Hugely underrated film with an incredible music score. Christian Bale had/has talent beyond his years. He had the same intensity in his acting as a child as he does now as an adult.

[davepeavy]

First, those are fighters... Not long range bombers from thousands of miles away, but short range fighters from an American airfield nearby... Jim knows this. As said in an earlier scene "this was is definitely winding down."

Second, for most of the film Jim has been an admirer of the Mitsubishi Zero. This is I believe a paradigm shift for him... Now in awe of the Mustang... Built by North American Aviation in Downey, California hoooah!

FYI - while this is a Seilberg film the book was writte

[flaminminigod]

someone explain to me the symbolism of this scene

[1Doz]

@flaminminigod

Let me see if I can put this in language you can understand. The kid is excited because the P-51's are bringing HOPE AND CHANGE to the POW camp where he's being held by the Japanese in China in WWII.

[MovieMad007]

@flaminminigod just the awesome specatcle and raw power of what the kid is witnessing! Its not everyday a 14 year old kid is holed up inside a Japanese POW camp when a low flying fighter bomber rips through the camp and blowing things sky high

[SmedleyDouwright]

Batman likes the P-51!

[SNOOZE3091]

This scene bring tears to my eye, because I have a passion for aviation, especially military aviation as much as little Bale in this movie.

[greg17815]

perhaps the most "chill-inducing" scene in all of cinema.

[miatageekscott]

Does anyone know who the kid in the movie is?

[phimax100]

@miatageekscott Christian Bale

[guncam2010]

@miatageekscott

Yes you will know him, its Christian Bale.

[southparkfan2717]

That would be amazing. To have admired fighter planes the way he did. He saw the Japanese Zero's and thought he had had the biggest thrill of his life, but then. To see up close and in action a firkin P-51D Mustang lay waste to those Zero's, the only way to top that is to have done a sequel where his character pilots an F-86 over Korea. (But even the F-86 is an eyesore compared to the P-51D, greatest aircraft of all time).

[araydog]

Was at a air show yesterday and they had a P51 demonstration. What a awesome plane

[Cythereaswetworld]

I thought JAWS was the movie that Landed SS at the top. More people should ave seen this movie....

[Stupot80s]

I don't know but i just always get a tear in my eye when I see this bit because it makes me think of all the people who died during WW2. The music, sound of the engine and that wave just gets me.

[RightWingHunter666]

Great fucking movie... scary to see how great an actor Christian Bale was at such an early age.

[sparky8609]

RIP Ray Hanna

[gnarkillkicksass]

@sparky8609 Wow was that Ray Hanna flying?

[44lucas]

@gnarkillkicksass Either Mark or Ray. Great shame they aren't around anymore.

[panese]

1:05 I love the Millennium Falcon window they are looking out of.

[PolishAirman26]

I`v seen "Empire of the sun" many times and I still cry during that scene...

I understand that boy very well...

[aimannorzahariwod]

i wanted to kick him cause of how annoying he was (the character's retardation to overthink =P), but he was brilliant, this scene gives me chills, great acting done

[56ALEXX]

this scene remember the arriving of the american troops in china in 1945,days before they dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[ancalites]

Gotta love those rubber bombs at the end there.

[nutster9000]

The Merlin engine. The pure sound of liberation!!!!!!

[LordGeorgeRodney]

@nutster9000 Alright then ...

the sound of freedom, liberation & victory!!!

[improve759]

That little boy Christian Bale

[101viper111]

a fantastic scene....emotional!

[Stigmatainmypants]

@LordGeorgeRodney Yes the sound of that engine is beautiful.

[331RBD]

@LordGeorgeRodney Nothin' else like it....

[samsullithegenius]

That little boy is now an Oscar winner.

[TheBoostyboy]

Ladies and gentleman! Mr. John Williams and the London Philharmonic!

[JBHMEDIA]

Wow... havent seen this movie in forever. What a fantastic scene!

JBH-FILMS

[OEKCVB]

Awesome from what i remember of this scene is the P-51 does his fly by wave because he knows its a prisonor camp as you notice they are bombin away from the camp and the gesture of the pilot seein a very young Christian Bale shows he knew POWS and such were there so not to bomb that area haunting, surreal master piece of a movie very very well done one of the top 100 movies for me

[smallmonkeydick]

One of the Greatest scenes in movie history. 

[MasterChiefFloyd]

@toddvanek29  Yes.

[nikobellic163]

Cadillac? id say mustang!!

[moto1p1]

Easily my #1 favorite bit of moving pictures ever produced!!! However one thing really bothers me...I have what is considered an extremely high-end home theater system and though they re-mixed the soundtrack in 5.1 it has zero punch...Big time bummer!!! If it only hit like the P-40 attack scene at the beginning of "Valkyrie" Oh baby....

[jamiejohndavison]

and btw it was the hawker tempest that was the fastest piston powered aircraft of world war 2

[simon1288]

@jamiejohndavison

Wasn't the Dornier Do-335 faster?

[jimjamsd]

@simon1288 iv accually have had the privalige of meeting eric brown who test flown both the tempest and do 335 and the do 335 was heaver than the tempest, the do 335 is only faster than the tempest when its in a dive

[simon1288]

@jimjamsd Interesting! Thanks for the info Jim. :)

[jamiejohndavison]

the pilot who was waving in this video was a good mate of my dads, RIP ray hanna one of the best pilots known to all those in the warbird industary

[xpeperx]

this is one of the planes that i want to see before die

[TheHAMMER77777]

AWESOME! NOT REALLY A CADDILAC THOUGH (A 747 IS LIKE A CADDY)..THIS IS MORE LIKE A MUSTANG OR VETTE

[CelticSailor83]

@TheHAMMER77777 They didn't have Mustangs or Corvettes during WW2. The Caddilac was the top of the line American Car

[TheHAMMER77777]

@CelticSailor83 in my opinion Caddys and Lincolns still are the top of the line American Car just as the 747 is the top of the line jet...i have 2 Lincoln Town Cars...big old fashioned American cruisers..like a moving living room! Its just that A Fast Fighter Jet i would compare to a sports car, but a luxury jetliner 747-type, id be more apt to compare to a Caddy or Lincoln..i get your point though

[4thstooge]

@TheHAMMER77777 Those "old school" luxo cars are nice to ride in but they weren't made for today's fuel prices. The P51 was no luxo cruiser it was more like a "hot rod" w/ a big engine & loud exhaust. They were hot inside & the exhaust noise was deafening

[TheHAMMER77777]

@4thstooge HAHA...youre right..but i have an old school lux car...1987 Lincoln with 250,000 miles , a real gas guzzler, and i drive her a lot Often!!!!!

[4thstooge]

@TheHAMMER77777 If you can afford the gas more power to Ya! My driving is only limited by how much gas I can buy. (not much)

[TheHAMMER77777]

@4thstooge i hear you buddy....but the ride is sooo smoothe!

[117JCW]

@Mineav

Who's the new good guys?

[Mineav]

Back when the U.S. were the good guys. What the hell has happened? Sorry days, these are...

[237whpH2Bhatch]

Little did he know hed go on to be batman and a total industry nutcase.

[atmark666]

P-51 is a state of art but Cadillac is not....

[Dwalters1988]

Love the sound of a merlin engine

[camiramzi]

get Damn i always cry whene i see this scene

[belkly]

gives me chills every time

[MusicLover11325]

0:17 He's all like "OMGosh I think I'm in love..."

[batboy3797]

for me is the best movie ever!!!

[4thstooge]

IT should have been Packard of the skies !

[moto1p1]

@4thstooge Right you are! My grandfather flew P-51D's in the Pacific, and that's what he referred to them as. However, I believe your comment, flew over most peoples heads...You get the Fonz from me! ! !

[fr8242]

I cry like a bitch everytime! :-)

[TheChunkyKong]

AMERICAN MUSCLE BABY!!

[captainbadd]

Try not to think so much!

[Heat6666]

HORSE POWERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR­RRRRRRRRRRRR

[onefugowie]

HORSE POWERRRRR!!!! WOWWWW!!!!!!

[xerxerxex]

and people wonder why we are Baleheads...simply watch Empire of the Sun.

[idejRetsam]

an early Jeremy clarkson!

[TheFishcado]

grande spielberg!

[spiceyvideo]

I don't care what anyone else says, this scene will give anyone chills each and every time they watch the movie.

[VanishaGlamChick6]

@spiceyvideo This scene is just perfect , it fits like a Glove with the rest of the movie, it´s a 10/10 classic.

It´s a shame my generation pays attention in Twilight while there´s such a great movie around...

[Lumotaku]

@VanishaGlamChick6 this movie flopped in the 80s it's a shame we don't respect history or good movies anymore.

[Salvus967]

@spiceyvideo it gives me chills and puts tears in my eyes. overload of emotion.

[bruno84]

@spiceyvideo Absolutely true!!!!

[agviator]

@spiceyvideo ditto

[mave262]

@spiceyvideo everytime man, every time....... at 0.23 play aerosmith sweet emotion and tell me if u don t get chills

[69ssrszl1]

@spiceyvideo I agree, this scene of Jim, the beautiful plane the sound of the Merlin Engine, is awesome. What a great young actor.

[ktmbua]

oh my god, the scene right after this is so sad and greatly acted by Christian Bale. I am disappointed you cut that bit out :(

[miiiikku]

I love how absurd stand towards war this film takes even if it was unintentional. And it was considering other Spilberg films.

[LarryThatKid]

@SGH28N I don't think that's what's happening here

[yblocker]

*Know (spelling)

[bluenail90]

I remember years ago flying over Yugoslavia (before the break up) and a Mig 15 flying along-side the 707 I was in. The pilot waved, it felt like to me personally, then banked away with a flash of sunlight on the silver paint. It was great when your'e a kid. Bless him.

[orcstr8d]

@bluenail90 It doesn't count if the aircraft hasn't slowed to the point that the on-board space/time manipulator kicks in and prevents stalling.

[Ppankster]

@bluenail90

Yugoslavia used MiG 17s and 19s, they weren't buying soviet stuff back when the MiG-15 was trendy.

Otherwise, a very interesting experience.

[bluenail90]

@Ppankster Thanks, well at least I remember it wasn't a '21.

[zdapivam]

@bluenail90

It was probably Mig-21, we didn't have Mig-15s.

Best regards!

[weliketogloatitfc]

another fly past from the late great ray hanna

[joejoemorgan]

He was just imagining the pilot was waving at him.

[Tomakak]

The USAAF is so bad-ass and its fighters so remarkable, its pilots can afford time to wave at emaciated children during risky attack runs.

[defmanz]

@Tomakak lol

[yblocker]

whoa thats christian bale?



[zekapeta61]

@yblocker do not know who Cristian Bale? also known

as Bruce Wayne ...

[yblocker]

@zekapeta61 oh no I know of him.

I just didnt now that the child in this movie was him.

[CLOUGHY101]

I've seen this movie a few times, seriously didn't know that the kid was Christian Bale!

[iralez]

P-51 Cadillac of the skies! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[trexx63]

The P-51 will forever be held in high esteem because not only is it a remarkable example of the zenieth of piston engined fighters, but because it was the tool that symbolizes how the FREE world put it's boot on the neck of national socialism and shinto buddism. ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY MUSTANG! Gunfighter, extraordinaire!

[gowill2]

@trexx63 holy fuckin agree!

[Horrormaniacs1]

Could you upload the whole movie Please Sir

[xXSuperSandvichXx]

what a fucking stupied kid. if u think im stupid think again . in the movie the kids real air plane that he likes is a a6m zero or something like that and he wanted to join the jap air force

[Salguine]

Respond to this video...I wouldn't go calling other people stupid if I were you, with the way you write. The kid can probably construct a coherent sentence.

[xXSuperSandvichXx]

@Salguine and i wont be going around and calling other people stupied for no reason. i mean what do you accomplish for saying that ? also ITSA FUCKING MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!

[vincedog3]

I may agree with you but that singular moment in time I would cherish forever if I were that kid. P-51D forever in my mind and heart. To all the brave and great souls who piloted the one and only P-51D Mustang. Thank you.

[Sooksawaspakdee961]

Love the P-52 hate that kid in the movie, i always want the P-51 to fired a long burst onto that annoying damn spoild asshole.

[MusicLover11325]

RUNNN LIL BOY

[snerjeck]

P51 didn't win the war. If anything it was the P47.  P51 is a good plane for its time though.

[rampking1]

@snerjeck You might find an argument from a B-17, B-29 or B-24 crew member.

Sadly there are fewer of them every year.

Hermann Goering had the best quote about the P-51 though.

[PoopStar32]

@rampking1 great point, and its said that b17's could have shot down more enemy aircraft than all of the other allied planes combined. though im sure someone will contest that with wiki-certainty. my grand dad flew and revered them

[warhawk40]

@snerjeck It was the P-51 that gave the US air superiority over Europe with it's long range. The P-47 didn't have the range to stay over the target with the B-17s and B-24s to fight off the German fighters.

[MrThunderbolt56]

@warhawk40 Not initially, no.. Later on, yes! Apart from the range, the P-47 was and is the superior fighter of the two.

[mikey1978416]

the explosion at 0:11 is the same as the one at 0:53

[swushshot123]

@mikey1978416 LOL true

[shanie119]

Jugboat fly by ingenius idea of SS quality.

[felldownonce1]

Christian Bale acted the hell out of this film. It still astounds me he was not nominated for an Oscar.

[racecardriver467]

@felldownonce1 Christian Bale.........??????

[felldownonce1]

@racecardriver467

Yes. He is Jamie in the film. He was 13 at the time.

[warhawk40]

@racecardriver467 Looks like little Batman got a thrill seeing his first P-51!

[tunastrike11]

alot of brave men lost there lives in world war 2 but it was a good time to be around not like today wish i could go back.

[woz30]

F4U-4 would eat P51 for breakfast. The U-4 was faster than the 51 & could outperform the 51 at low speed due to its huge rudder

[mrceebees14]

@woz30 And then the F4U-4 would hit the alarm clock, wipe its dick from the wet dream and get behind the P-51 as its wingman.

[woz30]

@mrceebees14 P51 would get behind the U-4 since it's slower at most alts. The U-4 was a fuel hog & would not have the range of the 51. They had the same armament. The 51 had better visibility. The F4U could outmaneuver the 51 at high speed ( they both had maneuvering flaps, however, the F4 could drop its gear as a dive break to brush off speed quicker & as stated earlier the huge rudder on the F4 gave it a low speed advantage. Notice I only say the U-4, not the entire Corsair series.

[GualiMexico]

You can see an awesome expression-change on 0:20 ... maybe the best acting escene for bale.

[fiscornioman]

"That fucking P-51 ruined my scene!, why the fuck!, GIVE ME A FUCKING ANSWER!!!"

[dwayne0t]

Aren't the explosions at 0:12 and 0:54 of the same building?

[psykosel]

Speilbergs greatest movie ever. hands down.

[SvenTviking]

But the Mustang could not carry a shed load of bombs, rockets, napalm etc, act as an excellent fighter bomber. And then once the bombs are dropped go up and mix it with anything. The Mustang was Vulnerable to ground fire because of its large radiator/ oil cooler assembly.

[TheRaGiTe]

Remember who this little dude is :P

[SvenTviking]

The real Cadillac was the Vought Corsair.

[urrybr]

@SvenTviking The Corsair WAS a great airplane . . . faster than the Mustang at 20,000 feet.  The thing that the Corsair COULDN"T do was fly from England, to Berlin, dogfight, and then return to England. I love the Corsair. The Japanese called it "Whistling Death" because the turbo-supercharger intake on the wing made a loud screaming/whistling noise. I've heard it, and it gives me goose-bumps. The Mustang also screams when it is in a dive . . . for the same reason.

[mrceebees14]

@SvenTviking If the P-51 never existed maybe.

[SvenTviking]

@mrceebees14 It goes in my three greatest fighters of WW2. The spitfire for being the only fighter to be produced throughout the war, that could mix it with pretty well anything and its almost viceless handling. The Mustang, for its range, speed, advanced design and the destruction it wrought on the Luftwaffe. The Corsair for its sheer versatility. For me being partisan, the Spit wins because the PR 19 was the most beautiful piston engine aircraft ever.

[alexmart54]

@SvenTviking i agree,i love naval planes.

[SvenTviking]

I am just reading an article on first Lt Joseph A. Peterburs who shot down an Me262 at 25000 ft. Whilst flying a P51. The plane '262 pilots really hated were Hawker Tempests. At low altitude they were faster and far more manouvarable

[irish89055]

@SvenTviking  caught up and shot down some buzz bombs didn't they?

[SvenTviking]

@irish89055 The most buzz bombs.

[CutterScene]

One of the best Spielberg scenes of all time :) ... a war viewed through the eyes of a 10-year old POW with a fascination for fighter airplanes. Compliments to John Williams for his fabulous score, by the way.

[MattOwen23]

@CutterScene One of John Williams' best... No doubt, mane.

[lionheart270866]

mm imagine if he said something about the zero or other Japanese planes his character admired. That would not go well with the US Public.

[lionheart270866]

The height of piston fighters yes, due to the engineers of England, Japan and Germany, the US could make a good plane.

Harnessing the use of fuel injection, light weight, and powerful engines.

USA had garbage planes until the invent of the P-51.

Mind you WW2 planes are timeless and are appreciated for what they are