B-24 Liberator Flight Demo... Inside and Out !

[JOHNO4992]

Brilliant.. I enjoyed that..

[jmalo23]

While reading the book "Unbroken" this video has helped me to better envision the experiences the crew must have had while conducting operations. In the book, the B-24 named "Super-Man", had 594 bullet and shrapnel holes in it while conducting a bombing mission. Incredible. Thanks for the video!

[mrv2rocketman]

0:29 wonderful sound

[Basicallybenign]

I enjoyed that. Had the sound turned up really loud. I could have been on-board that Liberator myself.

[doncoro]

lucky you, dude,

great video !!!

[cdawg4391]

Do they use the brakes to slow after landing? Might seem like an obvious answer but the B-25s do not (brakes are no longer in production) so that's why I'm wondering.

[peterm3964]

Ahh The Liberator . The "box" the b17 came in .

[F4Ucorsairguy1]

Saw planes get closer, and liked to fold up, sorry

[F4Ucorsairguy1]

We wrestled these things from the moment we rolled up number 4. They were dam hard to fly. Someone said something about formation? My crew and I say planes get closer and closer, until they hit. We saw men fall one way, and there parachuttes another. You still see their faces. The wings liked to food up once hit by flak, if you were in a bird and that happened you could say goodbye. They were a mighty aircraft, and me and mycrew owe our lives to her for bring us back every time, well most of us

[dratsab1980]

Theres on of these lying on Portsalon beach in Donegal near me, it ran out of fuel in 1943 and landed on its belly on the sand. I broke a piece off its no.3 engine cowl and wear it round me neck as a lucky charm!

[IamUncledeuce]

Larger payload and longer distance than B-17.... but harder to fly in formation. The pilots wrestled with the B-24 every minute they were on strategic missions in formations.

[MartinLeMalin]

I like those long slim wings ! ...

[carmium]

@MartinLeMalin Yeah, that "Davis airfoil," which I don't know anything about, but apparently gave those slim wings more lift that the B-17. Maybe someone will tell us something pithy about it.

[24262748]

Beautiful aircraft !

[Uniballerjimmy]

Two people were on the "receiving" end of this beautiful aircraft.

[buidseach]

only prob with the B-24 is that it didnt like grass or muddy airfields because of its tricycle landing gear and tended to dig in with its nose, where as the B-17 could land on almost any airfield.

[SgtSteel1]

Thanks for this video. I have just finished reading "Wild Blue" by Stephen E. Ambrose. Please read this book if you haven't. All I can say is 'WOW' and btw the B24 > B17 (which got all the attention)

Thanks for uploading this video. All the best.

[pocdabeno1974]

What a Beautiful Piece of history... A salute to the all the heroes of WW2 and the machines that concurred tyranny!

[KidsWithoutHats]

@pocdabeno1974 Remember when you commented on our video that all Canadians suck ass? That was rude.

[binaway]

When the British left Indian the RAF left a lot of Liberators from it's WW2 Far Eastern forces in storage in India. The then new Indian Air force took them out of storage, converted them into anti submarine and maritime reconnaissance aircraft and used them in this role until the late 1960's. A very large number of surviving B-24's are these ex IAF/RAF machines.

[GreatWhite85]

What a beast

[maximilianwang61]

my dear grandpa used to fly on B-24; he used to be the navigator and who was in charge of dropping bombs to the ground. i am glad the buzzing sound did not damage his hearing; i only need to talk louder to grandpa until recent years. :)

[flourburger]

Thanks for the video. Very nice photography and sound. I'm in the middle of Laura Hillenbrand's "UNBROKEN." It is a crew of a B-24 in the Pacific Theater during WWII. It is an amazing account of faith and survival. I highly recommend it. Charlie

[baldfatgit1]

Awsome vid thanks for sharing :)

[Liberator74]

We went to Republic Fields, L.I. from England to fly on Witchraft in 2009 - FANTASTIC PLANE!! See our B24 Beast Of Bourbon crew memorial dedication weekend 9th May 2011

[LibertyBelle7]

My great great uncle Wilfred flew these planes in WWII. His brother Elmer flew a B-17 named Dinah Might. Dinah Might got knocked out of formation by flak and crashed over France. But Wilfred survived the war. I have a video on my channel about them too!

[redcarpetphotography]

Awesome video. Thanks for posting such a great experience. And it's great to see a video without any music for a change, just the raw of the engines to show us how it really was.

[w5cdt]

I ended up landing behing the "Nine-o-Nine" on my FAA checkride.  Boy....talk about an interesting ending to my PPSEL checkride!

[noordereind19]

And those things actually flew!!!

[Decoy8]

B-24's are so husky! Gotta love 'em.

[mooersrealty]

My Dad was a tail gunner in the 15th Army Airforce and I am very proud of him. Thank you for the video and trip down memory lane.

[MissColumbiaL]

I saw this aircraft fly and was physically inside of it (KGEU, 2009). Amazing aircraft

[justforever96]

Hey, great video! I've been trying to find ones like this for a while; it's hard to visualize how one got around inside the plane from drawings, and no-one ever takes the right photos! How do you get up onto the radio room floor? Is there ladder steps in the side of the wall? Only thing missing, is I wish you'd showed what it was like climbing through the nosewheel well to get to the forward section. But oh well; I guess someday I'll have to try riding in a B-24 myself! How much did it cost?

[barmtrail]

Is that how loud they were thru the whole flight?!!! are you kidding me!!!!

[justforever96]

@barmtrail They sure were that loud! Thin aluminum, 4,800hp, and 215mph slipstream = loud. B-17 (and probably B-24) pilots would usually remove their inner earphones, and just shout to each other when they had to say something, rather than use the interphone...the joke was you could tell a pilot from a co-pilot from which ear they were deaf in. Sad thing is, that was probably only half joking! But the B-25 was the official loudest.plane; the exhaust stubs were just feet away from the cockpit.

[barmtrail]

@justforever96 Thanks for the info. My friend who is 92 flew the C47 in the south pacific in WW2 and he cant hear a damn thing!..lol My father fought in the south pacific island hopping in WW2 and he is also deaf!..We just need to take time out of our lives now and again and realize what these brave young(older now) did for their country.

[justforever96]

@barmtrail Certainly true. My grandfather was a B-24 radioman; I only just recently found out it was in an gun-nose B-25J (the .50cal ones, not the 75mm G version). He even described seeing the earliest 75mm installations come home damaged from the recoil and blast. He can hear okay, but hearing loss is common in all sorts of veterans, whether aviators from the engines, or infantry from the gunfire and artillery, or even tankers from taking hits on armor plate. They gave an awful lot for us.

[justforever96]

@barmtrail Opps...I meant to say "B-25 radioman", not B-24. I remember him showing me a picture of the B-25 "Heavenly Bodies", and telling me that "this was the plane I flew in". I took him literally, so when I found out that "Heavenly Bodies" was in the Smithsonian, I told all my friends that his plane was famous. LOL, I found out later that he didn't mean THAT plane, just the B-25 in general. Still very impressive, IMHO.

[Konabish]

Great job on the 'splices', and very realistic idea of the flights. My first flight in 'Witchcraft' (as 'Dragon and his tail') I got forward so fast after takeoff that the retracted landing gear was still spinning, and I had to wait for it to stop. The waist positions are awesome, and so is the top gunner, which I'd like to have seen in your video. If I want someone to 'experience' the ride, I'll show this video! Bravo-Zulu!

[elma2824]

my dad was a top turrent gunner on a B-24 called the R Bar--dad passed away Jan 18, 2011 this is a great video thanks.

[Charaht]

Dang, it's LOUD in there!!!!

[Charaht]

Big bad liberator!!!!!

[pirateplane]

Thanks for this. It gave me a chance to experience small amount of what my Dad must have seen and heard the few times he flew into France during WWII on one of these. Once they flew in after dark, landed in a grass field and unloaded supplies for the French Resistance. He said they were on the ground less than 5 minutes. A second time they flew in alone, low over Paris throwing propaganda pamphlets out the bomb bays to the French Civilians. What courage young men have! Never Forget

[PlumCrazyNut]

Excellent!

[sfholton]

Great Job!

[Idaho278]

2:51 right in front of the throttle, dont suppose that came standard! And those two dislikes must be German or Japanese! Glad to see it flying, the world is running criticly low on vintage aircraft like these.

[16Echo101stID]

10 thumbs up, Octane. I have tosay that this is my all time favorite youtube video. It was like I was there. And thanks for not drowning out the great video with that russian porno music people use on their videos. The soound of the plane was awesome.

thanks!

[Oaldce]

Can anybody please tell me how many B-24s there are still flying today? Is this the only one?

[16Echo101stID]

@Oaldce You're right!

[Joshuajlawn]

I have had the blessing of seeing the inside of both the B17 and the B24. One thing I observed was how tight everything is inside those! Looking on the outside you'd think there was plenty of room to move around, but there really isn't! Imagine a full 10 man crew with flight suit, parashutes and everything else they had to wear. Hats off to the men who flew the B24's, B17's, 25's 26's and B29's. We wouldn't have been able to defeat the Japs and Germans with out them!

[RodinaZovet]

That must have been so fun...

[n6vhf]

Wow....absolutely awesome!

[chaghar]

liberators sank the last u boat too. it was sunk near norway. the u boat right now is in a museum i believe or maybe the u boat itself became a museum cause it was so huge.

[Krappman]

The mid-console of the cockpit didn't look original! ;)

[justjooniin]

Wow, it would be great to get a ride in the Liberator!

[usafvet100]

It was one ungainly-looking bird, but it could do the job. What a narrow fuselage it had! I feel for the brave men who flew these to Ploesti at low altitude. One of the most haunting newsreel clips of the war showed a Liberator taking a hit right at the wing root. The wing folded, caught fire, and down it went. No way for the crew to bail out at that low an altitude.

[lancearies13]

"The best bomber by far was the B-24 longer range higher payload and more versions of the B-24 were made than any other bomber. There was a cargo version sub hunting version a ground attack version along with the high altitude bomber version."

[joshun28]

holy shit, imagine going to war in this.... scary

[chuckles1954]

Thank you for this. My father was a ball turret gunner under a B-24. He flew 30 missions in "Male Call".He passed away a few years back and I got all his war stuff. He was awarded The DFC with 4 oak leaf clusters. I always support any effort to keep the memory of what all of our warriors have gone through to keep this country free. As the liberals try to destroy freedom, it is important to always hear from the other side. Keeping our history is so very important as we go forward.

[danf321]

Very cool video. Nice cutting back-and-forth between inside and out. The Collings Foundation planes come to Burbank Airport here in California every Mother's Day weekend and I always go see the 24, 17, 25 and 51. I buy a lot of stuff (coffee cups, shirts, etc.) but I haven't had the money to do a flight yet. I'd really like to fly in their B-25.

[MrUndeadenemy]

Wearing headphones, I was thinking to myself that inside the plane is pretty loud, I checked my YouTube volume slider and realized it was at 10%.

[brunodts]

No nazis arround? I dont likethis video...

[1mexican1000]

wow 1 dislike this plane is awsome i want to flight in one when i am older cuz that thing look sweeetttt!!!!!!!

[555aahouse1]

Muchas gracias amigos I really enjoyed watching this videos of this gems still flying and roaring loud.....

A*M*A*Z*I*N*G!

[ThunderAppeal]

1:16-1:17 sounds like someone should get the phone.

[octane130]

@ThunderAppeal: Yeah, that ringing bell is actually the original "bail-out bell." When crew members heard that, it was time to jump! No kidding.  Today, that bell means to lucky riders on this B-24 that you can unlock your take-off and landing lap belt and you are free to roam the aircraft from nose to tail. Absolutely awesome flight, much more exciting than the B-17.

[timpska]

Great video!

[TravisModel92]

@octane130 I agree with you Octane, the B-24 (in my opinion) is by far thee most exciting of the two. May I ask where you flew with the Collings guys?

[moz1953]

@octane130 - my dad flew these for RAF coastal command - U boat killers - i would pay v good money to go up in her - great footage

[games4u2ube]

very nice take off & landing etcetera :)

[ornottoobless]

Several years ago My wife and I took a ride in this very plane. It was at KMSS in Massena, NY. A million dollar ride for $400 each. Born in 42 with a family members in WW2 it was a life time dream to fly in either a P 51 or a Liberator. Now for the P 51! GREAT video, loved the inside outside transitions, I took my vids from port side waist gunner and bombardier positions. Thank you for posting.

[IRIE1313]

Very Nice!

[janitor3000]

Beauty

[schuur10]

Awsome plane!.. Back in the days one b-24 made a soft landing in the meadows (the crew jumped earlyer!!!) nearby a farm between "Balkbrug - and Dedemsvaart" in the Netherlands.

Her name was "Portland anne"

Keep up the good work guys!!!

[maunten66]

precioso video de este bombardero en vuelo hasta el sonido de los motores es fantastico. gracias por subirlo.

[ColaWhiski]

. first-class video

warbirds-power.de

says THANKS

[sanyo51]

was these the planes ben afleck flew in the movie peral harbor towards the end

[TheHacKEDnetwork]

@sanyo51 no, that was the avro lancaster

[sanyo51]

@TheHacKEDnetwork cool thanks

[acc2108]

@sanyo51 The Aircraft that they were flying in at the end of pearl harbor are B-25 Mitchell's, not British made Lancasters.

[sanyo51]

@acc2108 thanks a lot

[Merel13]

thanks for posting,i can almost smell her.

[stkjnkrs87]

Excellent video, it give us the opportunity to virtually fly inside of that beauty, it is just amazing. Could you imagine being part of the crew and while flying a mission being attacked by flak and german fighters at 35000 ft or higher? All our admiration and respect for those heroes!

[Brenzilla4698]

Wait. If you were riding inside the Liberator, who was filming outside?

[dragondave509]

Thanks for the great video..my Grandpa flew 50 missions in one, so I literally owe my existence to the Liberator!!

[Chowkin9]

Imagine seeing 40 or so of these flying over your house in formation.. :o

[sketchmeister]

Words cannot express. A legend flies!

[GELCMTVES]

bautiful, beautiful, fly in a b-24

[beautyofdirt]

Awesome video! Thanks!

[asimov92]

wow,only in america

[flourburger]

Great video. Thanks a lot! Nice of shot of engines a-purring away.

[lordofmacedon97]

where u get to fly

[ornottoobless]

@lordofmacedon97 Google the Collings.com foundation for a yearly schedule of flights.

[FrogWineFilms]

Great video. I've only been able to tour one parked. Never got to fly.

[station609]

great video, thanks for posting..

[Zot64]

Lift off was so slow(ground/air speed) for something that big...looks funny. Gotten used to jets I guess.

[GELCMTVES]

beautiful.., beautiful.., flight in a B-24 libertador.

[25345G]

In October 2009 I was able to hop a flight in this beautiful bird from Stewart Airfield, NY to Caldwell Airport NJ with my nephew as co-pilot. We flew down the Hudson River passing by West Point Military Academy before heading west to Greenwood Lake Airport in West Milford NJ to get a look at the Connie, an L-049-46 variant located there. What a day! One more thing crossed off my bucket list!

[Greenhornet270]

Dad was a radioman in a B-24

[dhmosquito]

i love airplane noise. Very nice.

[kinjari]

Thats Torrance AP isnt it? I was a kid who got to fly in some Stearmans out of there back in '80 and also worked for and got to fly Grumman Gooses out of Long Beach for Catalina Airlines. Man that seems like a couple of lifetimes ago!

[Sooprazn]

Nice knowing that our soldiers in WWII had that GPS equipment to guide them.

lol, nice video.

[AmericanPride42]

Beautiful. It's too bad that there are so few B-24's today.

[MAAMFan]

Fantastic views of the Liberator!

[XBoeingCapt]

Terrific in/out flight experience of the War's very important bomber...thanks for posting this.

[nicolar007]

voglio salireeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[TomekKogutah]

Thank you verry much for shareing with B 24 flight :) (too bad, that I can't fly for real) I really ejoy it!.... I hear that Pratt and Whitney engines are really loud... I belive you :)

[Marshall7302]

AWESOME... not a big fan of the bird but .. GREAT flight video of a prime vintage war bird. If i ever get my chance in the B-111 Lancaster thoes are exactly the agles i want =-)

[DrHoldowicz]

Absolutely excellent - just like being there !

[vladimir2366fa]

Thanks you, Videos very nice, ５★★★★★

[bazwabat]

Great video. I especially like the shots taken from the nose turret of those 1830 engines purring away!

[GCOLE2]

Man, that was fantastic! Keep them coming!

[kaiserkid01]

would love to see this beast over here in the UK...but i doubt that would happen

[pasley21]

Dont be too doubtfull after all they did send "Liberty Bell" across the Atlantic and would be a great way to promote their cause plus I visited the aircraft recently when they were here in Arizona and at that time they were having dificulties filling the seats one flight was cancelled due to that and I seriously doubt that would be the case if the did visit England

[hipcat13]

@pasley21 I talked to some of the staff at Duxford air museum when I was there and they said that they can't take people up in these aircraft due to gov't regulations......something to do w/insurance I think. Too bad, 'cause they have many nice airworthy warbirds over there.

[systemdertoten]

That is one LOUD son of a -bleep-!!!

[Dunwyche]

Fantastic Octane! Thanke~

D~

[metallicastarwarsfan]

Cool dude. I rode on the Nine-O-Nine in March this year. Pretty loud even when you're in the rear away from the roof with the opening in the middle.