I Fly A Real P51 Mustang 

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I had a Uncle that was the Top Ball gunner on B-17s during WW2. After the War he got his pilots licenses and would fly every weekend in a Cessna 175 Skylark. At the time I was only around 7-year-old yet we go up and he let me fly the plane. I couldn't even reach the rudder pedals unless I was half out of the seat. Buy the time I was 18 I had learned to fly. He told me going up somehow made him feel closer to God. He passed away in the 90s. Truely this is on my Bucket list before I die. So Lucky.

I’m jealous. The P-51 has always been my favorite. Glad you had that experience, Jimmy. One note to your editor, please leave the music off when you’re flying such an epic plane. The sounds of the flight are part of what we enjoy. Especially the old war birds. Thanks.

I have the pleasure of hearing this plane make passes over my place in Palm Springs. I never fail to run out and find it in the sky. It's a beautiful sight.

My dad was a waist gunner in a B17 w the 8th AAF 379Th BG. Flew a lot of combat missions over Europe in the later days of WW2. He said that the P-51 "Little Friends" were a huge game change for the BG's. They could fly ALL the way to and from the mission targets over Germany. Thus, virtually no German fighter threats against the B-17 BG formations. Only the flak became dangerous when the enemy fighters were gone. Amazing aircraft.

I am 82 YO, have loved the P-51s for as long as I can remember, saw them sold as scrap (but they were complete). I was a mechanical engineer and have wanted to fly in one since I knew of them. I saw them fly over my home, central Illinois, during the war, those engines were always awesome. Thanks for this wonderful program and listening to men who actually talked to some of the Airmen from WWII. One of the friends of the family was Forest (old mind, possibly Millikin) who was a bombardier over Germany in a B-17, listened to stories he told my dad.

I had a great friend of mine, Lt. Col Jim Sanders (not kidding) who was a bomber/navigator in B-17's in WWII. He had quite a few missions before being shot down and made a guest of the Luftwaffe at Stalag Luft III. He escaped during a forced march by diving into a snowbank and waiting for hours for the column of 10,000 men to march past. He said he also "didn't appreciate being strafed by our own planes" during the march. He was recaptured and sent to Flossenburg in Nuremberg, where he escaped again to freedom in Paris shortly before the war ended. Later he flew in B-52's, and saw action over Korea and Vietnam, and flew Chrome Dome missions during the Cold War before finally retiring. An amazing man, and a good friend to me, he kept learning until he passed in 2005. He told me SO much about flying in the B-17's in WWII. He was partway through writing a book when he died, unfortunately. He had sent me several chapters as he was writing them.

See, I was thinking Bunny had a really nice tan and then it dawned on me that this might be one of the Red Tails.

The sound of freedom. Timeless design.

Thats a piece of Art... Timeless

Two tiny corrections. The aircraft at Dayton is Boxcar that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Enola Gay is in Washington. The guy that walked up to you died in 2009. Possible ghost? He was Charles Donald and Asbury.

I love this bird; she's been my favorite since I sat in one as a youngster in 1968. The story of her existence is majestic. Everything about her screams freedom!

She's a " red tail " one of the Tuskeegee airmans birds or at least painted like one , they never left the bombers stayed all the way, we had the famous 352nd fighter group the blue nosed " bastards of Bodney " stationed just a mile or two from where I'm sitting now in Norfolk UK with their P-51's back in 1944 , great stuff Jimmy as always.😊

Jimmy totally needs to end up getting a back seat ride with either the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds.

Great video! Thanks for the tour of the B-17. My Dad was training as a B-17 pilot when,late in the war it was decided that no more pilots were needed and he trained as a gunner, His plane exploded due to an AA round in the bombay. He was on his fourth mssion over the enemy ( about average lifespan) and spent the last four months of WW II as a POW. During the Korean War he was again in the air and this time in the B29.

Now that’s more like it! Merlin- best sounding engine ever!!! That’s the sound of freedom, and it’s a lot of BTUs!!!

What an absolutely gorgeous bird. Next to the Vought Corsair its amazing. What a privilege. God Bless our veterans of all foreign wars.

Was just at the Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum next to Dulles Airport in Virginia outside of DC. The Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan is housed here and the Bockscar which dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan is on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio. Would highly recommend visiting this museum if you have the time. They also have a SR-71A blackbird on display as well as the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Don’t forget that Palm Springs air museum has a RU-vid channel!!! They have a lot of history videos on every plane you can think of.

one of my favorite videos you have ever put out and by a long shot one of the most beautiful planes ever made. So cool to see that old warbird clear her throat. Thank you for this video!

You lucky son-of-a-gun Jimmy - beautiful P51 :) Lovely to see all those other classic planes and artifacts etc, particularly the B-17..

And in a total coincidence, I have a P-51 flight video coming out on my channel this Sunday!!! :)

As I fly a Cessna 172 today I will imagine dropping my first notch of flaps at 400mph😊!! A fun video to watch and learn about our aviation history.

My 4 personal favorite WW2 aircraft that I think are the best looking are the B-17, P-38, P-51 and F4U. I do like the Spitfire and several other but those 4 are my favorites in terms of looks. There’s always been something very attractive about a B-17 to me.

So cool to watch this video. I had my family at this museum just a week ago today and I’ve got a picture of one of my sons in front of that particular Mustang, and also an obligatory one of my wife making a big grimace in front of the P-40 Sharkmouth. 😂 It’s a fantastic museum. Their display has grown a lot since I’d last been there probably a dozen years ago or so. It’s always great to talk to the docents, as well. I could listen to their anecdotes all day long. ❤️

This is one of my favorite episodes, love all the history on this one

Palm Springs Air Museum is so awesome. Also for anyone that is interested in learning more about glider pilots in WWII, there is a great book called For Us Der Var Ist Over, by James Ferrin. It is a great book to learn about what glider pilots had to go through in their missions.

So very cool to see old planes in a museum, not reformed too much. I agree. Jimmy

As a young fella in the cub scouts, I had an incredible opportunity to be part of the "Young Eagles" program. One event I attended, was at March AFB in southern california, only a short flight away from palm springs. I was lucky enough to fly in a P51 trainer. It sparked my immense interest into aviation! This is such a blast from the past, thanks Jimmy:)

MAGNIFICENT P-51. WHAT A FANTASTIC SPECTACLE IN THE SKY!

This was awesome, Jimmy! My Dad's oldest brother was a waist gunner on a B-17. His 17 was shot down on their final sorte and he spent over a year in a German Concentration camp. He was one of the lucky ones that made it home!

I see the correction to the correction has been made. It was Bock’s Car flown by Major Charles Sweeney. I can see the frustration in Jimmys face during the B-17 tour. Any plane lover with an interest in WWII could conduct this tour. Jimmy is saying to himself, “yes I know, can we move this along please”. As many here, I’m an now an old Baby Boomer with a father who was a WWII veteran. My father was a B-25 pilot, (yes he became deaf) transitioning B-29s as the war ended. As with all veterans, it was the best part of his life and the worst.

British people love the sound of this engine best engine ever made

Jimmy - really enjoy your videos. This one is so great. My dad passed in late 2021. A Marine Corp Gunny and Korean War veteran (1950-1951...you can figure where his service was), dad wad a Docent at the Palm Springs Museum for many years before his passing. You can find his name on the wall of fame there. We had many great times there getting the "cook's tour" of some of th planes. I flew many hours with him in his Cessnas and a V tail Bonanza. He finished his flying career in a pressurized Baron . Thanks for the great video.n So good to see the museum again,

My Dad was a pilot during WW2 and flew these and most fighters. was shot down in the Pacific and was 1st rescued during new program, operation Lifeguard, wherein the subs secondary, if not 1st, operation was to gather up the downed flyers. Straight up HEROS above the water and below. 56 takeoffs and landings on Aircraft Carriers.

This is the best guy you’ve ever interviewed. He’s a true pro but down to earth. Great guy. Clearly anyone who was lucky to learn to fly with him was lucky to learn to fly with him. Period. Great guy. Amazing plane. Engineers back in the day were better than they are now. This plane was built on paper with pencil and slide rule.

Jimmy one of your most awesome videos with all the commentary. A great learning experience for all of us. Thank you so much for this.

Our Unit the 167th FG West Virginia ANG actually retired the last very last USAF P-51 Mustang in January 1957. The Mustang at the AF Museum came from our Unit. My Dad worked in Line Supply from 1950 till around 1955 and told me about ordering parts for the Unit’s Mustangs. When I was a kid, it was a common sight to see them fly over our house in Charleston, WVa. all the time. My favorite aircraft ever built !

Make sure if you buy gold or silver get the metal in hand and not just paper that says you own it. My dad was in SAC during the Korean war era. I met Paul Tibbets several years ago right before he passed. Hes the only real hero ive ever met.

My mother told me that during WW2 here in London, whenever any German pilot bailled out, a crowd would appear from nowhere ripping the parachute to bits and the pilot would just stand their bewildered at what was going on. Many wedding dresses were made using parachute silk

"Fat Albert" LMAO! Fat man and little boy were the bomb names of the Manhattan Project..

I researched..Robert ( Bob) Friend after I saw the RedTail..he flew with the Tuskegee Airman ..as well he also served in the Korean war..as well as the Vietnam war too he served for 28 years..quite a remarkable career.

There was an FBO owner in Nashua, NH, who owned a P-51D, used to give drives, and was fortunate enough to get a ride it it. That ride was over 30 years ago, and it is without a doubt one of my favorite aviation experiences. The Mustang's name was Double Trouble II. It too was a single-seat fighter was was adapted for a passenger.

Never thought we would fly in a Mustang! Thanks for taking us along! Karen and Roger

I have a tale to tell. During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Force used the property of my great aunt as an airfield. When WWII ended, it abandoned a half dozen Mustangs along with several replacement engines on the property. As a kid, I played in one of those aircraft moving the control stick around and pretending I was flying. After I started learning to fly, I realized that I might want one of those Mustangs. I was very disappointed to learn that my great aunt's sister had sold all the planes and engines. What a bummer. I wonder how the course of my life might have been affected had I been able to get one of those planes.

My dad was enlisted in the Air Force in 1966. This has been my all-time favorite airplane since the 70s as a kid. The other is the F-86 Saber... they're both beautiful airplanes! I've been in them during open house at O'hare airport many many years ago! He was in the 126th Air Refueling Wing, I'm not sure what unit he was in while he was in Okinawa from 1966-96.

WOW!!! THANKS FOR THE RIDE, JIMMY. JUST.... AWESOME!

Jimmy, it's not a Chipmonk. It's a Fairchild PT-19 training aircraft. My Dad had one and I used to fly in the back seat.

You deserve that ride jimmy for all you do for the world of g.a.. 👍. Got a p51 that lives at our local fbo, (also out west),. A private owner not connected to any museum. It's a real beauty but they try to keep it's existence on the down-low I think. One day I caught the hanger door open from a distance and I could see it in the back corner sharing space with a private jet. They saw me with my dog staring outside the fence. The door went down pretty quick, hahaha. They take it out roughly once per month and our house is right under the pattern and by the time it's overhead, it's already at 800 ft and climbing out quick - usually going around 250mph. I can hear it coming towards us in the living room watching tv. I usually jump up and run out just in time to see it fly over the house. On flight radar it displays as a kind of bat-wing thingy. Another good one Jimmy. Glad you got to do this! Cheers! 👍

American Airframe and a British Engine was a match made in Heaven...! You couldn't script it better...! ANY Pilot , even today , their eyes widen when P-51 Mustang is heard...!

“Fat Albert” and “Little Jim” absolutely made my week hahahaha

My uncle was in the 907th Glider Field Artillery Battalion. Not only did some gliders have troops but some had jeeps and field howitzers and crew inside. The Horsa gliders were made primarily of wood and the Wacos were tube and fabric. The F117 Nighthawks are stripped probably due to the radar absorbing paint on them. I think the coating formula is still considered Top Secret.

This museum painted this plane after my dad Lt Col Robert Friend - He loved Bunny and enjoyed flying in her when he could

You Just never get tired of old aircraft ,love this stuff

Keep doing these museums Jimmy, the tours are fascinating.

The Chipmunk isn’t a Chipmunk buddy. It’s a Fairchild PT19. (The blue and yellow one you were in front of).

As that beauty lifts off I'm imagining all those 18 and 19 year old 'kids' pulling back on the stick for their very first flight back in WWII, can you imagine?!!

I’m a RC plane guy, had a p51 foam plane it was electric and my favorite plane I’ve ever had. Watching the video when it’s taxing and landing it just doesn’t look real it’s so beautiful. I also watched Tom Cruse video on his p51. Just an amazing warbird.

Now that is what I call a high performance single engine aircraft! 😁

Hi Jimmy, love your videos, keep up the great work!. One note on this one: The actual Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress that was flown by Paul Tibbits and dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima isn't in Ohio, she's at the Smithsonian Institution's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, by Dulles International Airport (a 28 mile drive West from downtown Washington, DC.). In the early 1990s I watched the stages of the Enola Gay restoration taking place at the Air & Space Museum's so-called 'attic', the Paul E. Garber Facility, in Silver Hill, MD, about 3 blocks from my house. That's where the museum did all their restoration work and stored a lot of historic planes that they had finished restoring but they had no room to display them at their museum in downtown DC. Once they opened the much, much larger Udvar-Hazy Center in December of 2003, all those 'extra' restored planes could be put on display, and that's where the Enola Gay has been since the facility opened. If you've never been there, you really need to see it. Incidentally, the man the museum's 'attic' was named after, Paul E. Garber, was the first curator of the Air & Space Museum, and he was a WWI pilot flying the biplane 'Jennys'. He lived into his 90s and I chatted with him on one or two of my visits to the facility named for him and he told me how he was shot down by the Germans twice in that war.

The P51 is the sexiest plane ever built

Love your passion for all these planes, it’s so cool to see these are still alive and well. Great video as always, Jimmy! Keep the videos coming! 🤙🏽💪🏽

Loved the museum tour, especially the stories of the docents.

Great video. So much history there.I thank you and everyone else for sharing this information.

Still to this day I will die on the hill of the p51 is the most beautiful piece of machinery that mankind has ever built

One of my favourite aircraft. So cool . Crazy what they were capable of , even crazier when it was built in the 1930’s .

Oh Man Jimmy you’re luckier than a 2D Dawg dude!!!what an experience!! My dad’s boss owned a P-51 back in the 50’s. “Pacos Bill”. He got to fly in it in his 20’s. A few years ago I was communicating with Pilot Cowden Ward who then owned and operated the plane as an Honor Flight operation. I was to meet him and see the plane at the up and coming Houston Air Show later that year but unfortunately the plane suffered an in flight failure and Mr. Ward along with a 90+ yr old veteran WW11 died and destroyed the P-51 at a Fredericksburg Tx event for the Nimitz Museum. Glad your ride was a thrilling experience!!

When my daughter was growing up (shes 26 now)any trip we went on we did the squished penny. such great memories

Love these people working at the museum learning the story to teach and preserve our history!

Id like to see Jimmy fly in a Corsair, and call people Pappy :) Remember Baa Baa Black Sheep TV series back in the day? Loved that show, lol

If you are looking at museums, take a peek at Fagens Fighters in Granite Falls, MN. Multiple P-40's, a P-38, P-51, Wildcat, Zero among others.

Fantastic video, I really enjoy history regarding old planes and vehicles and this was one of the legendary planes from WWII.

Jimmy, you are one lucky son of a gun! I am man enough to admit it, I'm seriously jealous!!!!! That engine is the best sounding of all time. IMHO.

The P-51 is my favorite!

My great uncle was with the 88th glider infantry regiment (GIR) which eventually became part of the 82nd airborne. He was a pilot. The crew of the glider landed, dismounted and fought as infantry. I believe the glider was a Waco.

Your ride in the rear of the P51D was a re live of my 50th birthday present from my partner in Graham Bethels P51D out of Ardmore airfield Auckland New Zealand 2008. Had similar issues with my hard drive video camera due to the G forces as I didn’t disable the drop protection function and it was regularly shutting down during the flight. Well done.

Call me crazy but i get emotional looking at these planes. The amount of airmen we lost .... the extremely thin aluminum that the bullets passed through like a hot knife through butter. The hell of war they went through. I did understand until i went in Piccadilly Lilly II and saw for myself that it had no protection except the offense of many guns and later the beautiful P51D that saved a lot of airmen. To all sevice men , thank you!❤ Bad Ass airplanes and the men who flew in them! Im glad i dont HAVE to speak German or Japanese..... Not that im against learning on my own. Thank you to my Grandfathers Dick Fuller and Arch Hutchens. Both Navy WW 2 veterans. God Bless America!

Both Kathy and I have ridden in P51s at the Hollister, CA. airport a few years ago. There used to be 6 or 7 P51s based here and they built them for the Reno air races here. There's only 1 or 2 still here. When I went up we did canyon runs and I was looking up at redwoods :)

Thanks for the ride...👍👍

I think Clay Lacey did a lot of flying for the movies in Hollywood

A hundred "thumbs up" for this video!! Thanks for taking us along!

The red tail signifies the Tuskegee Airmen. Theirs were the only ones during World War 2 with red tails. They did it to make themselves easily identifiable.

Now that would be my dream to own a p51d mustang😎. My favorite ww2 fighter

This is one of your best, most informative posts. Thanks!!!

Jimmy, you have just reaffirmed my desire to travel to the US and Tour Every, Air and Space Museum in the Continental USA. Cheers.

Hi Jimmy. As a retired long haul truck driver I used to pass the Palm Springs Air Museum going to and from Riverside CA. If you have the opportunity visit Planes of Fame Air Museum at nearby Chino CA. Started by Ed Maloney the maintain many airworthy WWII aircraft and a tour of the Museum shops where the aircraft are restored and maintained is a real treat. All the best Jimmy. Blue skies and tailwinds.

7:40 Tom we haven’t even had our first date yet🤣🤣🤣

Amazing aircraft. Great vid. Still get a shiver down my spine when I hear that Rolls Royce Merlin engine, look up and see the elliptical wing design.

I believe Griffon and Merlin props (not counting counter rotating versions) spun in the opposite direction. The larger (30%-ish) Griffon was carefully packaged so it could be put in Spitfires, which mostly had Merlins. Griffon Spitfires are easy to spot by the cowl humps needed to fit the valve covers (since cams--and other accessories--were driven from the front to decrease crankshaft twist). The Griffon was less agressively tuned than the Merlin, so power was similar in some marks. I believe the Griffon didn't have to work as hard and, of course, offered growth potential. But, as many will attest, the Merlin's much more aggressive cams had the much sweeter note.

Jimmy, These videos are awesome!!! Thanks so much for taking so much time (I bet you enjoyed that) making these available to those of us that won't have the opportunity to visit these wonderful museums! I agree, working planes are so much more interesting than static beauties! Thanks!! =D=

During WWII, my Dad trained soldiers how to fly those disposable gliders.

This is the coolest airplane you've ever had on the channel. Absolute insanity! Pure speed.

Ive watched documentaries on the famous fighting P51D aircraft, but never saw somebody flying one just for fun!

I love this guys enthusiasm, super contagious

Fantastic video for many of us, but, special for me as I will never get to visit that place now. Little things bring happy memories of visiting the USA, to touristy Florida, but, we did the squeezed penny thing wherever we could, Including our NASA trip. Sometimes young Jimmy you outdo yourself on videos, and I have to admit, I happily listened to everything said and laughed when needed, but loved the video, as I love planes, and still, the sound of a Merlin on full chat sends shivers down my old spine, its a sound never to be forgotten. Once a year where we live right on the coast, we have a free air show for two days, and when the 4 Merlin-engined bombers flanked by a spitfire and hurricane fly so low over us, the noise IS amazing. Thanks again Jimmy, from merry old England

The King Cobra - big benefit of the mid-engine was far less pressure on the pilots in landing thanks to the tricycle landing gear. Most excellent video in toto.

Palm Springs is a great museum. I met Paul Tibbets there many years agoand had him autograph his book for me

@jimmysworld my great grandfather Glenn Rittenhouse was in the backup bomber as a tail gunner of the enola gay. They trained down in Buckingham airfield in Buckingham, Florida. I live in Cape coral, Florida and work for the sheriffs office which has a gun range at the air field. What a crazy world right! My grandfather Ken Rittenhouse became a pilot in his younger years and passed away with 26,000 private flying hours and owned a FBO in Bloomington Illinois called Image Air.

Since I was a little bitty kid I was attracted to the P-51 Mustang body. It just screamed sharp, powerful fast and maneuverable. What an experience it would be to fly in one.

The engine sound is perfect