Merlins
0:36
Added: 5 years ago
From: norfolkbor
Views: 358,994
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (325)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Amazing stuff!!

  • chills down spine

  • so cool : )

  • goddamn.....

  • CGI? You had me there, I thought they were real!

  • CGI?,SHIT ME NOT, YOU GOT ME,WELL DONE.i was gona say my grandad was ground crew in battle of britain n i used to love his stories n how when the merlin fired up he knew it was the best ever engine,R.I.P grandad and every one who lost their lives no matter what nationality.

  • ..is this real life? haha

  • Fantastic to the point of being real.

  • this is as good as the CGI on the sifi channel. LOL JK fuck no dude this shit looks real. props to who ever made it.

  • Eargasm at 0:13 low!

  • please please let this be a game. likely not but please!!!!!

  • I wonder who created this CGI? What software was used, and for what purpose? is it test footage for some film that has yet to surface?

  • Great, it fooled me!!! Nice one.

  • The one thing that gave it away is the gras. Nicely done!!

  • Mosquito's = Awesome

  • Can anyone say, "Sexy"? The two Misquetos (Cant spell), are suppost to be flying again early next year.

  • mosquito??

    

  • Hard to believe it's CGI

  • That was excellent CGI, it had me going.

  • You can tell its CGI on that last plane landing then rewind it sudenly makes sence :P

  • WAT!.... I though this was real footage?!!....the best graphics i have ever seen!

  • Couldn't be sure but I think it's clips from and old movie "Battle of Britain"

    No CGI back then. it was a post war '60 propaganda movie with Christopher Plummer.

  • Couldn't be sure but I think it's clips from and old movie "Battle of Britain"

    No CGI back then. it was a post war '60 prpaganda movie with Christopher Plummer.

  • Couldn't be sure but I think it's clips from and old movie "Battle of Britain"

  • 10 silly buggers

  • drop tanked Mosquitoes?

  • A Japanese CGI creator Mr.Tochibayashi made this clip.

    You can also find his other CGI movies on youtube

    Search on youtube keyword "tochibayashi"

    -Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1/3 (US Navy vs Japanese Navy)

    -Tetsuzō Iwamoto in the Battle of the Coral sea

    -Mitsubishi F1M2 Type 0 "Pete" Observation Seaplane

  • Was this real??  * noob sorry

  • Trust me when I say hearing a Merlin up close and real is easily 100x better than anything you can find on the internet....Still sounds beautiful though...And the CGI...Well you had me fooled

  • CGI...and i was thinking what movie was this footage from. brilliant.

  • DAMM GOOD BIT OF CGI MATE i read the other comments because i know the last flying "mossy" crashed a few years ago and i was trying to work out when and ware this was filmed bloody good vid :)

  • THANK YOU for not putting music over this!

  • ahhh music to my ears

  • If i hadnt of read Lefant0m3 comment i wouldnt of known it was CGI

    i would though it was real

  • awesome work whoever did this. I would have to say its CGI purely due to th lack of prop wash effects during the low high speed pass and the landing. Wheres the dust and grass being blown up by the props and exhausts. That little gripe aside. very sexy no matter what. Only thing better than this - seeing and hearing a real merlin, in the flesh. Thats when you get true shivers down your spine

  • I just don't believe this is CGI.

    Sooo... If it is CGI, WOW!

    But if it isn't CGI, I told you so!

    I think that about covers it.

    Parting Shot: If this is CGI, why can't someone make a new version of Knights of the Sky that looks and sounds this good?

    :)

    Thanks for posting this Real (CGI or NOT) video.

    Cheers!

    -BA

  • It doesn't get any better than that. It's better than an old Harley.

  • is this a clip from a movie?

  • I wasfooled, I thought it was real. After rewatching it, the only thing that really gives it away is the tail light at the end.

  • F*ck the video!

    The Audio is impeccable!

    Well done all around though, no offense intended.

  • Wow, I'm really impressed!

  • The CGI is amazing. The flying is almost a little too perfect.

  • I didnt know it was Cgi hahaha

  • Wait...seriously? This was CGI? Well damn. I was fooled.

  • @lefant0m3 if the CGI is well executed, it looks real...if it's poorly executed, well then it looks like a computer game

  • shit had no idea of the CGI, impressive

    what's this from?

  • beautiful, just beautiful....

  • Anyone notice that even this is really really great, it's still at 240p? ._.

  • didn't think it was CGI for a moment - guess that's a compliment!

  • amazing video,,,but wonder if is a movie video regarding the battle of britain or something else???????

  • Jolly good! CGI so good It made me do a double take.

  • you can tell it is CGI because the Mossie engines are rotating in the same direction.

    The actual engines rotated in opposite directions to eliminate torque.

    Fantastic CGI though. Goose bumps.

  • @Stubbee Oh! Sharp observation! But it is some of the most otherwise undetectable CG I have ever seen. Except for airworthy Mosquitoes and >maybe< a sightly virgin grass airfield, I wouldn't have known.

  • @Stubbee Sorry to correct you m8 but the mossie props rotate in the same direction,clockwise from the pilots eye view.I know it makes sense to have them contra rotate to cancel out the torque and multiple engined (electric) radio controled aircraft do have them, but on the real mossie they would have to fit an extra gearbox to make it rotate in the opposite direction. Some aircraft do have contra rotating props (AVRO SHACKLETON) but its 2 props and a gearbox running off one engine.Great CGI tho.

  • @SavyBajaBuster

    contra rotating is 2 props sharing one shaft and rotating in opposite directions, like the Shakleton.

    counter rotating is 2 engines rotating in opposite directions

    both set ups eliminate torque but contra rotation didn't appear until after the war ( i think)

    I was sure that some variants had counter rotating engine setups. Time to double check.

  • @Stubbee Contra rotating not always single shaft. Fairey Gannet had twin mamba engines which could run props at different speeds independent of each other,even shut one down.While the shackleton used a planetary gearbox.The mossie props turned the same direction and had it's problems, thats why when the DH Hornet came along it had "counter" rotating props both turning inboard. I guess changing the crankshaft to change piston timing engine could run in opposite direction eliminating a gearbox???

  • Done well! Done very well!

  • Who cares if it's CGI. It's an awesome tribute. Very nice vid uploader. (And creator if not the same.)

  • Very cool!

  • just about the best CGI I've ever seen. The light and shadow, propeller revolution, landing gear, landing scene - flawless as far as I can tell.

  • @lefant0m3 @FSX7340 @akrobatapobyku Noobs... I could paint a cartoon doorway in your house and you'd all run through it.

  • Yeah, as a boy I grew up with this kind of unreal awareness of the British Empire and I had a very hard time adjusting to the idea that there was no longer a British Empire, just a world run by spineless politically correct jellyfish and feminazis and homos. But, yeah, God bless the British people!

  • @okaaaiiiden its an animation, all the planes are CGI

  • That's what I call MUSIC !!! Thanx for posting !

  • lovely sound :)

  • '

    this plane with 2 prop fans must be 2 opposite direction spins

  • Great Video just an indication of what we have lost not having a flying Mosquito. I saw the last one flying over Brooklands the year before it crashed. It was superb!! The Mosquito Museum North London is a must visit. It sumed up for me where we come from as a Country. Blokes in sheds with great talent and determination in the face of put downs from the experts from the ministry.

  • The whole thing is CGI, amazing I know but I saw this vid years years ago and it was made by a very talented Japanese CGI artist. Unfortunately I cannot recall his name at the moment but he has made more of these.

  • It's a bloody shame that we can't see more of these planes in action. The one located in a museum near BOO is stored drained for all liquids to cut on insurance costs. According to an engineer there it would take them an afternoon to have the Merlins sing again. Imagine that these beauties were bonfires in the early fifties...

    I just love the Mossies..

  • The low level fly by might be CGI but I'm pretty sure the high altitude shots are from a movie called 633 Squadron made in the early 60s when there were still several flying Mosquitos.

  • this is a render or game?

  • There's such a power in that sound. I saw and heard one of those Spitfire Mk. IX's for myself at an air show some years back. That sound goes right through you.

  • Anyone who wants more of "Tochy" (Masaru Tochibayashi)'s work then have a look at the Warship movies website by typing some 'w's then (dot) 'aeronautic' (dot) 'dk' (forward slash) 'Warships' (space) 'movies' (dot) 'htm'

    He may have made all three but he's credited at least in the third clip down. I suspect he's responsible for all three clips.

  • Sadly true, there aren't any flying Mosquitoes at present. But within the limits of the feeble YouTube quality, that footage would have certainly have convinced me if I'd not known that for a fact. Hats off to the film makers!

  • why is this so awesome!! i cant watch it enough!

  • it looks real, but i kind of knew, there aren't that many of those old planes flying anymore to make up such a crowd of them

  • Simply better than a babbling brook!!!!

  • This animation is almost too good to be CG.

  • ..where or rather when on earth was that filmed? It's just fantastic!

  • Zoltan Bebto from Hungary.Europe.

  • O_0 Oh god!

  • I hope the supposed 3D movie they're making based on the Battle of Midway can have planes that look and sound that realistic. Incredible work.

  • whoever made this animation is a genius

  • Beatiful!!! <3

  • great clip!!!

  • I would love to get my hands on a couple of Mosquitos

  • i love that sound (:

  • That's pretty impressive CGI, and it took me until the landing wheel clips to stop trying to work out where they got the air worthy mozzies from. Hah!

  • @ScreamingTc we will have airworthy mosquitoes At the NZ Omaka Airshow next year.

  • This is a great piece of animation. Spitfire MkIXs' and de Havilland Mosquito B MkVs'. Any more like this?

  • is this a game? if so what is it called?

  • The twin engined monster, I'm guessing a Mosquito? Were they bombers?

  • @Fezztecfilms I guess you can call them bombers

  • @racingfreak988 More like multi-roles: Recon, light bombers, anti-shipping, fighters, night fighters.

  • @Fezztecfilms the first multi role fighter, the true grand daddy of the euro typhoon SU-27, F16 etc. Fantastic plane fastest military airframe of its day, which it held into the 50's until the true advent of the jet!

  • nice video!!

  • What can I say 0:10 is badass! Hope you all have a good sound system.That sounds wicked.You can feel the power these weapons had!

  • They are the most beautiful engine sounds ever recorded

  • great video..........

  • Only time i have heard anything as good as this was at RIAT with a display by a large number of spitfires including a couple of griffon powered models

  • It is a CGI file. V nice though.

  • The CG certainly is very good, caught it at the landing. But it was very well done

  • the low pass from 0:18 to 0:21 is orgasmic!

  • the first 20 secs looks pretty real but that last bit with the landing is obviously CGI.

  • Very good quality well made...

  • This footage is real no way that computer generated

  • I love these old warbirds.

  • This almost gives me a hard-on. So envigourating to see these pictures and it´s with absolute relish that I watch them.

  • Why do people think that everything's CGI when they can't explain something? Duh! CGI won't look this real for some time to come. And have any of you ever heard of a little known movie called...BATTLE OF BRITAIN? LOL. It's not like the film doesn't look old; it's authentic. Just because there aren't any airworthy Mosquitoes left today, doesn't mean they didn't have them back in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s when they could still film flying examples of them.

  • Kermit Weeks had an airworthy mossie ( he sold it to..... ) and we have one in NZ that is ground running. What is the date of these flights ???? The rego on the aircraft is very interesting ! CGI aircraft NEVER fly correctly , yet these appear to fly perfectly. I suspect it is 50's footage ( 60's possibly ? ) . I believe Mr Spode is correct.....but I am just a pilot.....

  • easily seen cg in the shadows. they can never get the shadows quite right.

  • I think you will find that these are clips from films like 633 squadron and the battle of britain.

  • This is amazing work. Tell this Toki/Tochi guy that he needs to get hired by a production company to make incredible WWII airplane documentaries. Phenomenal!

  • ha ha no mosquitoes still flying. Pwned

  • To SenorSpode; I completely agree, I am full of drink. But the sound of a merlin (kestrel or griffin) it helps me from this horrible depression! I missed a bomb run once by a Lanc - to my despair. Wonderful things, to hear that growl again and to hear the BF's whistle...

  • you can see its fake...

  • Not real but bloody brilliant never the less.

  • How can anyone NOT think this is GCI? Its totally, 100% impossible for this to be real. Not just the fictional two Mosquitos, but...the Spitfire in Johnnie Johnson's markings (JE-J), is a Mk. IX, in this...not the XIV it should be in real life. Fake.

  • May God Bless the British Empire and her people

  • @developer3032  hehehe, what empire XD ?!

  • @tempest1944 Actually the first Spitfire to carry Johnnie Johnson's personal markings was a Mk IX

  • @TopGunSGA My mistake...I must've been delirious that day. I should've known that without thinking. :( Can't understand now, why i tried saying his first was an XIV, when I have his book. LOL sorry!! *hits head on desk*

    But still, very nice CGI.

  • The merlin not is real!

  • I love all old warplanes

  • YES!!!!!!! YESS!!!!! love the sounds

  • Now just imagine 30 Of them on a bombing run over france During WW2, Must have sounded Fucking Amazing

  • Sorry SenorSpode... it is CGi. Look at it again. I know of no airworthy Mosquito, let alone a pair. I promise it's CGI done a by a Japanese fella called Toki or Tochi I think.

  • You are correct that there are no airworthy mosquitoes in the world. also, the squadron codes are wrong, The HE letters on the fusalage designate 263 sqn which flew whilwinds and typhoons in the war, not mossies. also, the engine noise at the begining and end is from a radial type engine, not a merlin, the flypast is definately merlin tho.. no mistaking that!

  • @norfolkbor Yup. He did some amazing animation jobs...

  • @norfolkbor We have a couple of Airworthy Mosquitoes here in the US, one of them is owned by Kermit Weeks

  • @Paladin601

    According to the Mossie.org webpage:

    "Q. Are there any Mosquitoes still flying?

    Unfortunately at the moment there are no Mosquitoes left in flying condition. The last example, a T.III, RR299, crashed at Barton in the UK on 21st July 1996 killing both aboard. For images of RR299 before she crashed, please see the 'donated files' page."

    NO Mosquitos are flying as of today.

  • @NorthernBuck3030 Kermit weeks, Mosquito is considered "Potentially airworthy". It was damaged during Hurricane Andrew at Fantasy of Flight in the Orlando area. Actor Cliff Robertson of the movie 633 squadron has one in storage along with his Spitfire in Santa Maria, California, don't know if it is airworthy. Thxs for the info.

  • @norfolkbor - just to let you know, there are airworthy Mossies - NZ's Omaka Airshow will host one in April next year.

  • @DrLeavingsoon

    It's good you confirm that because when i was the origional Mossie Museun in London Colney last year, they told me about NZ building an airworthy Mossie again.

    Seeing the Mossie fly again will be like 70 years worth of X-mas and B-day pressies combined!!!

  • @norfolkbor What makes you think it has to be recent footage ?

  • @norfolkbor well this is obviously CGI, but there are air worthy Mosquitos. Iv seen plenty of clips of them

  • @norfolkbor

    eaa.org/news/2010/2010-11-24_m­osquito.asp

  • @SenorSpode It is CGI. Observe 0:30. The light is obviously a computer generated effect.

  • @SenorSpode Oh my god, LMAO! "That's not CGI. Seriously, do people here watch so much TV as to completely miss the difference between CGI and real life?", yeah obviously you cant tell the difference, HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

  • @dhart1977 So, what does this video tell you: that it's virtually impossible to tell the differnce between CGI and real life or that you are a pussymouthed crackhead? I rest my case with you, loser.

  • @SenorSpode lol it's CGI the joke's on you buddy

  • @Dllshockk Well, I can take a joke like this. It's pretty good, a lot better than watching some wet-dream scene play on Final Fantasy or Doom...

  • @SenorSpode There are no fly-worthy mosquitoes left, it is CGI.

  • @SenorSpode

    I really agree with you.

  • @SenorSpode Mate it is CGI - super good but watch the landing and you can tell that it isn't real

  • @stevenesmond2 Thanks, I know now...that took some real work to get that good. You gotta look REAL hard to see it's CGI. The only thing I don't like about CGI is that it numbs us to the real thing when we experience it. Virtuality is nice, but nothing beats real life.

  • @SenorSpode FAIL!

  • @AngelusFromHell Ledditgo, I came clean. Jeez...

  • @SenorSpode

    as worthy and inspiring your comment should be. it is actually CGI. not proving you wrong in your face. but it is.

  • Omg I never even realized this was CGI until just now.  Absolutely amazing

  • starting at 0:14 the sound was absolutly epic.Great CGI.

  • 100% agree

  • is this a game or just some animation??? i would love to play it if it is

  • Fantastic music! Spitfires and Mosquito's!!!

  • that is just an awsome sound sadly we don't hear any more

  • If that`s CG, bring it on I say!

  • the sound from thelow level fly-by was simply amazing !!!!!

  • bootiful sound

  • i didnt know mosquites used merlines. Omg on balsa and that fire power, they must have been fearsome.

  • @Shadowrom

    Hurricanes, Spitfires, Mustangs, Mosquitos, Lancasters and Halifax all used Merlin Engines. There were many other aircraft that used various versions of the Rolls Royce Merlin engines.

  • Thats Mk IX spitfires with the mozzies I think.

    I love that low pass over the fields :)

  • Thats not just motor sound, this is music!!!!

  • agreed XD

  • estupend norfolkbor

  • Holy crap I had no idea untill the very end that it was CG.

  • What did you use for the animation?

  • great CG , the landing sequence was the best

  • looks amazing

  • Super CG> It had me guessing for a second.

  • it make me fell in the ww2

  • AWESOME CGI! no really its not sarcasim, really awesome!

  • very true

  • gotta love it

  • Great video, TY.

  • beautiful

  • Is this a Flight Sim? Or Real?

  • Real