Mustang P51

[ohlsen1973]

When I hear the sound of a Mustang or a Spitfire I begin to drool like Homer Simpson thinking of porkchops

[danonwheels300]

Good Old British For it Merlin Engine

[OldCrow001]

my plane!

[Sweetonebroken]

Nope, that's Bud Anderson's old warplane, well a replica of it, and it was not a Tuskegee warplane, if it were, the entire nose cose would be solid red and the entire tail section would also be painted red with a little yellow stripe on the rudder

[jorgemessiah]

Jason in CC's mom slobs my knob like corn on the cob :yes

[BabyMaple1]

gotta tell ya... from the color scheme it was a tuskegee plane... may be a replica, most probably a white pilot... the fact is that the color scheme indicates a tuskegee mustang

[fbenenati]

This is the paint scheme of the 357th Fighter Group, Bud Anderson's group, out of Leiston/Yoxford, England. It is red and yellow checkerboard. The Tuskegee group was the 332nd from Italy, and as Sweetonebroken indicates, had a red spinner and red vertical stabilizer tail. BTW, there are at least two restored Old Crows, one in the US, and one Norway. If there is a third, I apologize for not knowing offhand where it is based.

[AlphaAlphaLima]

it was a tuskgee airmen plane from the red tail and nose cone

[PA28140]

I don't think Clarence "Bud" Anderson was one of the Tuskegee airmen... Especially since he was WHITE!!!!!!!!!

This is one of the most famous paint schemes from any Mustang and it was Bud Anderson's airplane...

[gms4afight]

wow! awesome!

[wingsfan2520]

Is it wrong to have a hard-on watching this?

[steveoflyz]

not at all

[Hollywood115F16]

I hope not...cuz I got one from watching it! haha

[woods5690]

Best sounding aircraft ever. Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up to hear it fly.

[mightycowhero]

mustang flight.

ken follet's next novel. :P

[barbenH]

Umm, didn`t Erich Hartmann (top ww2 Ace) shoot 5 of these planes down in 1 dog fight?

[dancehallking7]

If the F-22 was in the P-51 days the P-51 would clearly be better.

[ecuaviation]

hmm lets not get carried away

[BlackKingInuyasha]

I think the F-22 is the modern day P-51. There both my favorite and both badass.

[acaxxx1]

nice :)

[GabeV08]

I think the P-51 was a great plane. But i know that other great aircraft that did their jobs just as good or better are very underrated. The P-47 was a great aircraft. Along with the P-38. The P-40 also has a greater rate of climb that the P-51. But all great aircraft

[Acornoa]

F4U-4 FTW!

[ShamblerDK]

I've actually sat in that P51 when it was at the airshow in Aalborg, Denmark

[BipedalMammal]

Either way, it was designed by a German and had a British engine...

[BipedalMammal]

P-38 could give it a run for its money.

[Is3nM0rd3r]

Yeah, p-38 was good, but not AS good...

[79inches]

How could anyone call such a majestic airplane "Old Crow"???

[dhfiuejfdhjfoiewdjmn]

thats wut it was called in the war

[Bobbyo60]

"Old Crow" was the name of a wiskey that Bud Anderson must have had a fondness for.

So...

[Atomic101Heli]

Yeah your right! but it just sounds cool!

[chrisjordan4295]

I went to an air show and I learned that the p-51 was the fastest plane of world war 2. The top speed is 505 mph.

[belloneti]

False. The Me-262 is the fastest plane of ww2

[coryboy345]

Think he meant to say fastest "prop driven" plane. With the counter-rotating props, nothing touches the p-51.

[TJDOZIER1]

Oops! 505 MPH was attained in the prototype of the P-47 during flight test. There is an ongoing disagreement between P-51 and Corsair fans for the fastest WWII fighter aircraft, so it depends on who you ask. The current record holder is the highly modified Grumman

F8F called "Rare Bear" at a speed of 528.33 MPH. Steve Hinton holds the absolute speed record in a P-51 with an average speed of 499.33 MPH flying the highly modified P-51 called the "Red Baron".

[belloneti]

The german Me-252 is the fastest (541 mph) ,the world's first operational turbojet fighter aircraft, still dreaming with your american planes XDDD

[TJDOZIER1]

Oops myself,

I meant propellor driven aircraft, the ME-262 was the fastest conventional aircraft and the ME-163 Komet being the fastest of all aircraft of WWII.

[keithcoaches]

Excellent footage m8! I wanna do this wen I'm older!

[DGS120]

i flu dis plane in ww2..shot down loadsa Jap and krowt planes wit it. i was ace pilot and got lotsa medals. dey ask me ta do da air shows coz dey no i pwnd lotsa enmy stukas.

[WeretFilms]

Nice shot of the dihedral of the wings

[Aussiephil99]

Good aircraft made into a great aircraft by a British engine.

[WeretFilms]

[response to Aussiephil99]

America + Britain = Perfect aircraft

[tpmunyon]

nice flying and a soft landing to bootl love the P-51 (in all its variants but especially with Merlin)

[cobrachoppergirl]

Flyby my ass, give me the stick, i'll do a triple victory roll, then under the power lines, through the visitor parking lot flying low enough one wing tipped to knock the tennis balls off the soccer mom SUV antennas, then super G hard turn, climb, then do a drop pass going 400+ mph on the nearest commuter passenger plane, out of the sun at a 200 degrees verticle angle, screaming "GUNS GUNS GUNS" into my radio, and asking towwer if I got a verified kill on that flying tub.

[cobrachoppergirl]

oh hell yeah i could sooo scare the crap out of some yahoos in their pickup trucks on these old dusty desert roads with a north by north west ground attack mock strafing run... i'm going to have to steal one of these bad boys...

[bignitro50]

I love the sound of that merlin engine.

[California9]

At so many airshows you only see mustangs do simple fly-bys. Its easy to forget that these were some of the best dog fighters of WWII. Great video. I love getting to see the P-51 do what it does best

[IndyJones95]

The P51 was such a good plane. it was a tankbuster as well.

[08854ICARUS]

I love those black and white lines... Victory!

[BolterBolter]

"Oh, and FYI, the plane and the engine are generally considered as one piece"

LOL! You made a funny! :D

[BipedalMammal]

The Merlin engine did wonders for the Mustang. The plane gets all the credit, even though the engine was responsible for alot of the success.

And the majority of people tend to forget that the P-51 was designed by a German. What?! Yep. His name was Edgar Schmued...

So the credit goes to Germany, England, and America wether you like it or not. Can't wait to see how many thumbs down I get because I state facts. :D

[DorianGreyandhisMom]

Not quite sure with what you're attempting to accomplish by posting this. Big whup, it was designed by a German - so?

I'm sure you think you're astounding by listing off a couple of out of the way facts (although anyone who is any fan of aviation history at least knows the first, probably the second), but really, you're just trolling. Oh, and FYI, the plane and the engine are generally considered as one piece, but the A-36 did marvelously as a close support aircraft until the intro of the Merlin

[BipedalMammal]

Providing a little knowlege where it isn't already stated makes me an asshole?

You need to calm the fuck down! You said "anyone who is any fan of aviation history at least knows the first" RIGHT... How do you think people learn this stuff? FROM OTHER PEOPLE. You aren't born with endless info.

Providing facts is trolling now? You also contradicted yourself, because you did the exact same thing- Added information to this topic.

[BipedalMammal]

"Not quite sure with what you're attempting to accomplish by posting this"

Are you THAT stupid? Was it not obvious that I was trying to tell people that it was designed by a German?

You're just a typical American- Afraid of not being the best at everything. Grow up.

[BipedalMammal]

One more thing- "Oh, and FYI, the plane and the engine are generally considered as one piece"

LOL! Really? Ok. That goes against EVERYTHING in the aviation community, and 99.9% of people would laugh at that pathetic statement. Most variants are called VARIANTS because they have different engines. It's probably the #1 cause for a different designation outside of payload capability and the service they are in.

You just lost all of your credibility with that stupid remark!

[Corktip14]

And to replys to this, if it was the case, the P-51 wouldn't have passed from a not-so-good plane with the Alisson engine to the wonderfull plane it was with the Merlin, even if the plane is really often overestimated by people.

[BipedalMammal]

Wow... LOGIC!

Thanks :)

[RUNBITSYEMMA]

Schmued also designed the F-86 fighter use in the Korean War to combat the Mig-15. The F-86 fighter , produced by North American Aviation, used the 35 degree swept-back wing with automatic slats copied from the Me 262 airfoil and Me 262 HG 2 wing design. We always get an overlap of technology from different sources. America gets the credit for putting all the pieces together in the production process. Check out the NAA upgraded P-51 H model.

Best Regards rg

[schlusselmensch]

@BipedalMammal Schmued was Austrian. Never held German citizenship.

[theshow2k8]

@BipedalMammal

Sorry but the P51 was a quick design for the Americans given by the British because the Americans wanted their own version of the Spitfire................who didn't.

[LtBullitt351]

What a beautiful aircraft!

[79inches]

gotta love it....

[psweep]

I saw a p51 Mustang Last Year at the Cosford Air Show In Shropshire and i only heard it on Combat Flight sim and all that and tv programs. When i actually saw it, WOW its a Bestly Sound i Adore This Machine..I could listen to it ALL Day!!!!! Proper Sweet Fighter :) Great Video

[animelover386]

nothing like the sweet sound of a merlin engine

[iranoob16]

thats a baby fore you

[Panzertruppen1]

To all you expert doubters, yes it is a superb merlin, once you hear it you don't forget it.

[grazyarnie]

There is no doubt...the Mustang is a wonderful airplane with amazing possibilities to watch....but its Master is the Focke Wulf D 9 flown by a pilot with equal skill...its hard to find a german pilot on a Dora with the experience of an average allied Spitfire- or Mustangpilot.

Those boy had a powerful tool....but they could not handle it...so the FW 190 has its Top position betweeen the Top Fighters for sure...its just the pilots who lost confidence.

[Panzertruppen1]

Well said, credit must go where it is due.

[iranoob16]

ya that is a tru joy to fly and ride in

[Panzertruppen1]

Plane was on par with a 109 but not the FW190or the later"D" model.But then again Erich Hartmann in his "outdated" 109 sent every American he met down in flames before he called it quits.Hmmm.History Channel glorified to the max,victors have the pen.

[gumzy33]

the old crow is jack roushe's p51 mustang..seen it many times at EAA.he has a crew just to take care of it n fly it..must be nice to be rich..

[oozeroo]

lol mate...the whistle is the supercharger and btw that is DEFINITELY a Merlin in the front of that aeroplane...

[AlHillATC]

No thats definatley a P-51 Titans are way smaller than that. The whistle sound might be making you think its not a Merlin, thats nothing to do with the engine it's the air moving through the machine guns on the wings. I think....

[FreakKeeper]

Hate to break it to ya but that doesn't sound like a Merlin engine and it does look like a 'real' mustang. Looks more like a Titan Mustang [aka kit plane]. Just a little FYI

[evltoy]

Hate to break it to you buddy but that does sound like a Rolls Royce Merlin. You need your ears checked, or more importantly whats missing between them.

[terryjohn]

2'34 LIKE HALF ROLL OVER.

[terryjohn]

SORRY 134 ROLL OVER.

[85Barbarossa85]

search for: 'Me-109 Messerschmitt German WWII Fighter'

It makes a beautiful sound..

[wastecan300]

haha it wasnt the me-109. a lot of people think that for some reason. it was the Messerschmidt bf-109

[Halofan11]

Me-109's existed...............

[SpenzOT]

The name 'Bf-109' was for messerschmitt's designed before 1938. That's because the 'BF" stood for Bayerische Flugzeugwerke. This company was renamed to Messerschmitt AG in 1938. Therefore all designs after 1938 were to carry the 'Me' name.

So he is right and you are wrong. Unless the video specifically showed a pre-1938 model such as the Bf-109E, it was most definitely an 'me-109'. Both names are acceptable but really only 109E's and 110C's were designated 'Bf'.

[DuffySAS]

The Supermarine Spitfire is the greatest legend! Plus the mustang would have been quite poor hadn't it been for the rolls royce merlin engine replacing the alison engine.

[85Barbarossa85]

The Messerschmitt 109K-4 "Kurfürst" got a Daimler-Benz(Mercedes-Benz) liquid-cooled V12 engine, It got 1800hp!!! Two-stage super-charger

710km/h(445 mp/h) top speed

Thats my favorite ww2 fighter for sure!

German engineering:)

[david00army]

love the sound as it flys by

[patertre]

Fab video. My greatest dream is to fly this famous plane!!

[linkjm]

beautiful bird, yeah that Merlin sound. i read that if the Mustang got shot in the engine, it would stop. not true with the rotaries. the Mustang's super charger injection was in a funny place. also, the Mustang didnt handle well at lower altitudes. this is not evident in this video though.

[HH440r]

The Allison enginedones were better at low altitude hence their use as ground attack aircraft. You get shot in the engine isn't nice what ever plane you fly lol be it a Tempest II or P-51D

[linkjm]

yeah, i guess youre right. i read the Allison ones were well liked by the pilots but didnt meet British specs. something to do with altitude, range, and visibility. what do you think of the FW190 Bs'?

[HH440r]

Never come across a B lol?

[Tsumasaki01]

thats one reason why they put a huge supercharger on the thing, it boosted performance at high altitude and reaised the horsepower to about 1200. the charger was put in the funny place, cause engineers found a great amount of clean, smooth air flow over that area of the body.

[Halofan11]

hey it made it sound awesome who gives a crap lol

[Tsumasaki01]

no im saying it was ingenious, they did a great job.

besides my degree is in Aeronautical Engineering, so these types of things are my passion.

[FlyDevin]

Just think I get to hear that sound all day at the Reno Air Races this September "07"

[Atomic101Heli]

U guys can keep your jets i love that sound thats comes out of that baby it awsome!

[CtFdPoSt330]

wow, thats a great sound. i love it.

[Marcfj]

Zeph94, I was referring to the P-51 when I said "German engineering at its finest".

[Marcfj]

German engineering at its finest!

[zeph94]

lol, yep....and USA shot em down XD

[cerberus192]

later p51 had merlins fw-190s are way cool

[stk1970]

P51 A models had Allison V12 engines and was basically a failure as an interceptor. Adding the Merlin with a 2 stage supercharger from the P51 B model changed all that though. Fantastic sound!

[dant218]

that sound..ajkfsdhgjkfgh!

[pentraksil]

OMG that sound.......

[wokandmurrys]

CAN SOME ONE HELP ME OUT HERE. Did the later mustangs have a merlin or an alison?

[nrcsst]

Merlin.

[Kemposkeleton]

I luv p-51s they are beasts i wish i owned 1 =D

[drewster1829]

What a great plane! P-51s rule! And you guys are right...the Merlin does sound great.

[gebezeira]

whats the engine of that marvelous thing???

[Zekee27]

a V8.. HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Mustang, V8, get it ?? HAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHA omg I kill myself

[SeattleGrunge91]

is one of my favorites planes! the sound of the merlin, WOW is amazing!

[o0ze]

If I was a plane I'd fugg it..

[robsonangra]

you are the best... king of air...its sound is great i love mustang.

[bdrws6]

Gotta love that sound. I love the P-51D Mustang.

[TIEDefender2nd]

one of best WWII plane ever

[chaminex]

Amazing that P51's are owned by people in Europe, Japan as well as the US, 61 years after the war. This is the best plane the US ever produced

[johnbakoda]

Great video.

[gabesp51]

awesome I luv mustangs