My uncle joined the army in southern California in 1938. He was 16. He took flight training at Cal Aero Field, now Chino airport. Before Pearl Harbor he was in Burma flying with the Flying Tigers. A captain at 19 years old.
After leaving the Flying Tigers how did it turn out for your uncle? I mean, did he pay his own way home or did he take the crummy offer from the AAF? Anyway, that is some great family history you have.
As A young man I received training on the C-97 out of Floyd Bennet,Brooklyn Naval Air,And the 141-A out of McGuire,Flt engineer positions.I finished up 15 years on the C-5 A run qualified out of Newburg jet mech. Seeing this ,yes I miss those days.Thank's for the memories
Thanks for this brother!! Always looking forward to more video's from you! Hope all is well out there, I'll hopefully be starting school soon for my A&P License. I hope to work on birds like these soon!
Growing up in London, England in the 50's, I always marveled at the diversity of the De Havilland Mosquito used on photo recon, night fighter, bomber, pathfinder etc. A light bomber with the speed of a first line fighter. My understanding is that a lot of the surviving aircraft fell apart after the organic glue that held the wood together slowly disintegrated. It is interesting how many fighters and bombers used the famous R.R. Merlin Engines including our own P-51 Mustangs.
@HiWetcam The Plywood used was first grade Marine ply of a quality difficult to find even today as I know to my cost having just scrapped a two year old boat due to water infusion.
Gerald ALL merlin powered Mustangs use the AMERICAN PACKARD built, MODIFIED and improved version !!!! NO RR built merlin in a Mustang !!!! DUUUUUHH!!!!!!!!
Voodoo 1650 I have never seen anything near to the quality of your depiction of the Warbirds from the past! The visuals and sounds of these wonderful aircraft are truly exceptional. And since my wife is out of town, I have turned the volume to the max...and though the windows might shatter; I don't care ! I find it all better than "sex"; of course that's easy for me to say... My problem is that I am jealous of the pilots who are flying these planes...God, how I envy those guys!
at the beginning of this video it shows a spitfire....I remember exactly this spitfire because I saw it in a Chino airshow back in 1984 (or 85?) that when it landed it did a nosed over. Glad to see it flying again.
Not surprising, haha! The Griffons were known for this IIRC. Also during take off. The last of them delivered up to 2500 hp... And they turned the other way too!
@@buggerall I know of a guy who once owned a Griffon-powered Mark XIV Spitfire and a Merlin-powered Mark XVI. One day he took off in the Mark XIV and discovered too late that he had set the rudder trim the wrong way - he had set it for the Mark XVI. He wound up going sideways across the field, got airborne in time to clear the fence but snagged the tail wheel on the top wire. The aircraft went vertical, then hit the ground, ripping a wing off. Nineteen years later, after passing through several different hands, the Spitfire was repaired and made its first public appearance at the Classic Fighters Omaka 2015 air show. It has been based at Omaka since then, but the pilot who crashed it has spent the years since in a wheel chair.
@@MarsFKAYeah, I'm sorry for the guy. Quite some late war reports of griffon landings but especially take off's gone wrong. 2000 pound engine on that infamously narrow landing gear. Imagine they had a seafire version as well!
@@atrium8609 Thank you. I'm aware of that. The Mark XVI was effectively a Mark IX, but powered by Packard. The pilots who flew the aircraft liked it, one in particular was Raymond Baxter, who in later life, among his many other accomplishments, was a motor race and air show commentator. In a book I have about the Spitfire, Baxter had this to say: "The clipped wing on the LF XVIE made the aircraft a delight to reef about at low level. It was easily the most offensively-optimised Spitfire I ever flew, and the old Packard Merlin was a great engine for the job, with one exception. There was a rev range in which it didn’t run smoothly, and of course this was the range we had habitually used for long-range formation work in order to conserve fuel. The only solution was to avoid those revs, and the problem, I was later told by the great Sir Stanley Hooker of Rolls Royce, was caused by Packard using a slightly modified carburettor."
muchas gracias por esta preciosa exibicion de estos veteranos heroes de las guerras que aun surcan los cielos para recordarnos que aun estan ahi listos y en guardia para cualquier emergencia...
There are none left flying in the world - but there IS one under restoration in the UK and will take to the air again around 2024. hawkertyphoon.com/rebuild-progress-december-2019/
Thank you for some excellent footage. Quick question though: we referred in UK to the Curtiss P-40 as a "Kittyhawk", but you're calling it a "Warhawk"... WW2 was well before my time, so do you know any reason WHY?
Oh man, here we have an authority in the knowledge of the history of the Spitfire. The language he uses reflects how he entirely domains the subject. In fact they had AN important roles such as the chase the V1 bomb. The mkXIV could chase it as it was a fast aircraft and the performance of the Griffon allowed to equal or exceed the V1 speed. You can start calculating how many lives the Griffon powered Spitfire saved. Then question for you, did the Griffon Spitfire have a valuable role during the war over Europe?
@@jacktattis1190 Actually the RAF had them build. They were looking for P40's but couldn't get them. North American was asked to build them but they were tired of building other ones designs and claimed they could make a better one. The rest is history. They were right, in a rather big way :-)
Bryan Actually you are wrong !!!! First Mustangs were the Mark I & Mark II for the Brits, next was the A36 dive bomber and third was the P51A model which you see here in this video !!! The facts man via the time line !!!!
@@buggerall Bugger what otherones designs were NAA Building ???? They only built the AT 6 Texan/SNJ/Harvard and the B25 mitchell bomber, the Brits had both of them !!!!
RedArrow73 They’re not necessarily more unstable just after liftoff, there is a little more workload with grabbing the gear handle, and some are dealing with wake turbulence from the planes that took off before them.
If the pilot tries to lift off too soon, before enough speed has been built up, torque and P-factor can overwhelm control authority. The pilots of these birds are well aware of the pitfalls and generally do a very good job of making it all look easy.
The Griffon needed a large-diameter propellor to use the higher horsepower of the engine, but the Spitfire's short undercarriage meant the there was too much risk of a larger four-blade propellor hitting the ground when the tail was up during take-off and landing. Hence the smaller diameter five-blade propellor. There is a RU-vid clip featuring a guy named Bob DeFord, from Arizona, who wanted a Spitfire so badly that he made one - bought a kit and spent eight years putting it together. He didn't have a Merlin, but he had a couple of Allisons, so his replica Mark IX Spitfire features a non-standard engine. It also has a three-blade DC-3 propellor, which is a little over-size for the Spitfire and he was advised to have it trimmed as, when the aircraft's tail is up, the propellor has only two inches ground clearance. He kept it as it is and is very careful during take-off and landing. Here's the video I mentioned: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pzkoTulqA1U.html He loves his Spitfire and it's a pleasure listening to him talking about it.
@@MarsFKA Hey dumb ass Bob Deford built that plane from scratch !!!! DUUUUUHHH!!!! ! Who the hell makes a wooden kit of the shitfire ?????? And when it flies you cannot tell the engine is not a merlin !!! Some "people" have gotten a hard on drooled all over the "merlin sound" only to be devasstated to find out the engine is an Allison !!! Damn that guy made my day building and flying that Allison powered shitfire replica !! ! WOW !!!!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Being able to write properly is a talent that you do not have, but when you add it to the inability to actually read what other people have written the shit that you write comes across as just that - ignorant shit from an ignorant shit. There is nothing in my comment about Bob DeFord that you have answered, either accurately or with anything even slightly resembling intelligence. You would not know how to write an intelligent rebuttal if someone coached you every day for the rest of your miserable, futile, hate-filled life.
Good video but...that first Spitfire was painted with the Pacific theater roundels. They took the red middles out so as not to be confused with the Japanese Army that had the big red spot with a white border later in the war.
It's in an RAF Burma colour scheme - SE Asia TO. Australia operated Spitfires (Vbs and later Mk XIV in the SW Pacific) but not that late Griffon engined Mark with the tear drop canopy. The Spifirs had a lot of trouble with poor runways (narrow track U/C made it hard to taxi) and most were fitted with Volkes tropical filters.
All the Allied aircraft in the Pacific Theater took the red out of their markings as they had discovered that newly arrived inexperienced American fighter pilots were quick to shoot at anything with red on it.
@@MarsFKA "friendly fire" was just a politically correct term used by the news !!! It was no accident that those arrogant mouthy egotistical limeys got shot down !!! Just cleaning up the trash !!!! Happened in all militaries where obnoxious asshole officers enlisted soldiers got "Taken out " during battle !!! A way to eliminate the assholes !!!
Sad to think how so many of these beautiful aircraft were sent to the bone yard only to be cut-up and recycled. Who knows, maybe the soda can you had today may still have a piece of history in it.
Oscar Thorpe This engine uses a wind driven generator to control the prop pitch electrically, pretty cool if you ask me. The German's used this same engine in WW2 on their Focke Wulf 189 reconnaissance aircraft.
In fact it was developed by the engine manufacturer Argus. It was their patented kind of variable pitch prop (and hub). Mainly used on their engines (Argus As 10, As 410, As 411). Though fixed props (Fieseler Storch) and other manufacturers variable props (Messerschmitt P06 on some Bf 108´s) were used with the Argus As 10. But most As 10, As 410 and 411 were used with the Argus type one. Pilatus P2 uses Argus As 410.
Simon SORRY Simon the Mustang was a 100% US Design of Dutch Kindelberger of North American Aviation. He OFFERED the plane to the Brits in place of the P40 the Brits wanted. Brits were the customer, a nation that needed planes and were begging for anything !!!! FYI the First 620 Mustangs built for the Brits, the Mk I & II were Allison powered, the next batch of 500 A36 dive Bomber was also Allison powered !!!!! And the USAAF ordered hundreds of the P51A fighter with the Allison, one of which is here in this video, the Mustang with the air scoop on TOP of the engine cowl !!!! The Mustangs from the P51B on were All powered by the American PACKARD built Merlin, starting in 1943 !!!! Facts of history !!!
SuperAncientMariner You received the standard reply from the worst piece of garbage on the internet. He despises anyone who knows less than he does, which is about two others of all the humans who have ever lived and hates everyone else, especially anything and everything British - he was probably conceived in the back seat of a Morris 6. His posted comments are so mind-meltingly stupid that even he knows how dumb and infantile he sounds. An 8-year-old autistic has better social skills and more intelligence. He would be a laughing stock if he wasn't so pathetic...actually, he *is* a laughing stock.
@@wilburfinnigan2142 You lived through the War, you cheap and nasty bastard? Then you must remember everything about it and not just some stuff about a *British* aircraft engine that was made *under licence* in America that you read about in a skinny little book that you threw away after reading it once.
@@MarsFKA Hey dumb ass !!! Those Packard merlins were made FOR THE HAPLESS BRITS 37,137 because they could not put the tea cups down get off their scrawny lazy asses and go to work !!! And dumb fuker !!!! I have still done more research than you !!!! ! DUUUUHH!!!!!!!!
You can tell this "European theatre flight" was stateside, mostly US planes, no hurricane, no mosquito, no typhoon or tempest (although I'll admit I have no idea if theres any of those two still in a flying condition), only one spitfire, and that was a griffon engine one.... and no german aircraft at all. NO MERLINS!!! I don't think the P-51s were merlin engined, didn't sound like it.
roadsweeper Hey dumb ass !!! This airshow was the Planes of Fame airshow in Chico Calif !!!! Of course most planes were American as most people will not fly these old warbirds very far to an airshow !!! There are shitfire, mossies Hurrycanes here in the USA !!! !
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Spell checker playing up again? "duuuuuuuhhh !!!!!!!!" is *always* spelled "DUUUUUUUHHH !!!!!!!!" You should know - Christ knows you've used it often enough.
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Bingo! Mister Predictable strikes back. Any psychologist could write a text book on you and your conditioned reflexes. Pavlov made a dog water at the mouth simply by ringing a bell. Anyone can make you foam at the mouth simply by saying something that doesn't fit into your narrow, futile little life. While we are on the subject of "spelling", I correspond all the time with Americans who, intellectually, are more rungs up the ladder from you than you have the ability to count and *none* of them write as poorly as, or with the mouth-foaming hatred that you do. I have never encountered anyone like you, and that is not a compliment. Your turn to say something, or will you just copy/paste something disgusting that you have already written? You ran out of anything original to say long ago.
@@wilburfinnigan2142 And yet you do respond, Mister Conditioned Reflex. You didn't include a "DUUUUUUUUHHHHHH !!!!" Are you feeling okay? Not that I care either way...
@user name In New Zealand there are one-and-a-half Yak-3 fighters, both powered by Allisons. I've seen and heard them - back when there were two - at the last two Classic Fighters Omaka air shows and they sound fabulous! In early May I'll be sitting in the back seat behind one of those Allisons: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NIQpw_0iiKU.html Why one-and-a-half Yaks, I hear you ask? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gz07Q5Etyjc.html
@user name Most of the P38's have disconected the turbos and run without them too much maintainence and lack of parts !!!! ! That Allison also sounds great at speed !!! Did ya also note the P51A with the Allison ????? The mustang with the air scoop on top of the cowl !!!!! ????????
@user name What are you talkin about ?????? The P38????? The P38 had a turbo added to the induction system.......it feed the Mechanical supercharger that ALL Allisons had !!!! The turbo made it a two stage system that only really kicked in above 15,000 ft and most of these old museum pieces rarely ever fly that high !!! Turbo or not those Allison still develop the same take off HP !!!!! Same as a 2 stage merlin, its 2nd stage only kicks in above 15,000 ft !!!! the way they work !!! If kicked in all the time they over boost at lower altitudes !!!
I find it funny how propellers worked out great for fighting use. I mean that they spin so fast you can see through them and have nothing blocking you're view
@@jacktattis143 The man had a huge love of aircraft and his collection showed it !!!! And he had the money to build and maintain it. In fact the Boeing 757 that Trump has as a personal plane he bought from Paul Allen. Paul also owned the Seattle Seahawks NFL foot ball team saving them from extinction and the Portland Ore TrailBlazers NBA team !!! He was a quiet man and we did not realize he was sick for a long time, fighting a rare odd form of cancer. he never married and his sister is running or overseeing his assets !!!!
What do you mean by that remark. I am pretty sure that English and Commonwealth pilots would beg to differ. One has to remember that when the USAAF came in force to the European theatre, the Luftwaffe was already on the decline.
@@mafmaf6417 BULLSHIT !!!! There were thousands of German fighters Left !!!! The Luftwaffe was far from defeated in the BOB as you Limeys like to claim !!!!!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 The cream of the Luftwaffe was defeated before 1943 by the RAF and Comenwealth airforces long before Mustangs were around. I am not downplaying what the USAAF did by no means. Like most Americans do is you take all of the credit for winning WW2 all by yourself. By the way I am a Canadian.
@Jim Barrows Actually the Spitfire could carry bombs and fuel tanks. The Mk IX could carry 1000lbs. From the Mk V and on they could carry slipper tanks.
@@mafmaf6417 You are wrong !!! There were plenty of Luftwaffe plane left that inflicted heavy losses on US and UK planes. why it took from the end of 1940 to may 1945 to defeat the Hun !!!! The war effort was a combined effort, BUT without the USA and their production capacities you commonwealth people were screwed !!!
Very politically lame! Did not show any of the great german planes and did not show any of the famous soviet planes. BUT, did show one swiss plane that never saw combat! Talk about a slanted view of history!
Really?!?! How about you spend the millions to have any of those 'very rare' and mostly unobtainium planes restored and then you can bring them to an airshow, there is nothing slanted about this video, those planes you speak of are very few and far between.
