Let’s all take a moment to give thanks to the person that put this video together for not spoiling it with some shit obnoxious music drowning out those magnificent Rolls Royce Merlins!👍🏻🇬🇧
The throb of the Merlin, a sound that brings tears to an Englishmans eyes, and causes European dictators to empty their bowels into their trouser legs, even to this day.
@@julianneale6128 sadly not......many were licence built Packard versions as fitted to the Mustang. As you may know, the Mustang was a brilliant airframe....which was bought alive by the Merlin. I hate how some others berate us English......WWII was a combined effort by ALL the allies, we needed America and the commonwealth.....thank you to all those who fought with us.
@@stevebroughton4787 my friend. Just because some of the great many Merlin engines were built in a car factory in the USA, it doesn't detract from the fact that they are Rolls-Royce engines!
@@julianneale6128 Correct, Throughout the war, all sides continuously improved and modified their products. It was a technologicl war too. The Merlin engine was a excellent example, and always being improved, it needed to be. Where that took place , was irrelevant. The basic design was a brilliant one, so much so, that it survived beyond the war , being produced in various forms, from 1933, to 1950. 40 aircraft types were fitted with it. It was a ROLLS ROYCE designed product; and also, made under licence in the US, as much as any US designed products, are made under licence, elsewhere in the world today.
The Mossie was the plane the Germans feared the most. It was a high level recon from 40000 feet and a tactical bomber precisely bombing targets from heights of 100 feet, a night fighter and bomber bombing Berlin with the same load out as a B17.
Thank you, I was looking at your videos the other day and I really like the sound quality. You tell on your website about all of your cameras, but what microphone do you use? I have about 5 of them that are probably better than what I use, but they all seem too sensitive to wind noise.
By sheer luck, I was In Canada in 2014, visted Hamilton Air Museum, stood underneath that beauty, and had a great talk with some of the crew, about their forthcoming trip over the Pond.
There's no mistaking a RR merlin engine such an iconic sound I could listen to it all day long single twin or quad I particularly like the twin and the mosquito sounds brilliant a plane that deserved so much more credit and great to see the only two preserved a very criticized design with a timber airframe and canvas cover to prove itself over and over and able to sustain massive damage unlike other planes made from alloy
Mark too bad the engines in the Lanc Mk X amd the Mossie and shitfire MkXVI were the PACKARD, built in the USA version !!! Some of the 55,523 built over here !!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Hi Wilbur, i'm back. When the Canadian Lancaster was in the UK one of it's Packard engines failed and was replaced with a loaned RR Merlin, not sure whether it flew back to Canada with it still fitted though. I bet that bit of information has spoilt your day, LOL
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Just embarrassed that the US stayed out of the war entirely (planning to just make money selling material to the Brits), until 1941 when the Japanese spoiled their plans to stay out completely by bombing Pearl Harbour. That's OK, wilbur, we understand your inferiority complex.
I remember the arrival of the Lancaster at Mount Hope Airport outside of Hamilton Ontario as a young boy- arrived on a truck in pieces after being removed from a pedestal. It took Canadian Warplane Heritage a number of years to make her flightworthy again and then it became and still is a common sight in the sky over Hamilton. As for Mosquitos, 1032 of them were built in Downsview Ontario (not part of Toronto) during the war years- my father remembers them flying overhead on test flights before being flown overseas. How I wish we had a Mosquito in airworthy condition in Canada.
Wow ! I often wondered what happened to that Lanc on a concrete Pedastal. It was my first visit to Canada, in 1966. I saw, and photographed it. A complete Lancaster in a large grassy area in central Toronto. A few years later , it had gone, and my relations , living there, didn't know what became of it. In 2014, during another visit, I was standing underneath 'VERA' , In Hamilton Airo Museum, talking to the crew, who were to fly VERA to Britain, in 2 months time. ME NOT knowing she was the ''Pedastal Lancaster''.Thanks for clearing that up .
Excellent Video, great weather.The props are recorded at the right speed per second, and there is no roar of the wind across the mikes. AND no stupid music. It has to be remembered, that these shows are visited by families with young children--and not just enthusiasts, so that information is sometimes necessary.
It's okay to for the announcer to ramble on when an aerobatic aircraft is flying or a newer aircraft is flying around, however at the better shows, they quit talking when the vintage aircraft are flying past so you can hear the engines. It's fine to start talking after they fly past and before they get there. This guy never stops, he just talks louder so you can hear him over the aircraft noise.
Remember when Hughes Air West sent , Rolls Royce , what they said was the worlds smallest drill bit , and could RR use it ..........................RR Drilled a hole right through it and sent it back ...............No Thanks
Oh my gosh, why doesn't the announcer understand that his words are meaningless in comparison to the sound of the airplane. I'm astounded that he just keeps talking.
+hagfelsh I went to Hamilton Ontario 2 years ago to see the Lancaster and Mosquito fly together, the first day they played some really loud music when they were flying. I complained about it on their Facebook page and they didn't play it the second day. Geneseo has the best airshow announcer. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-N57T6lqE6t4.html
I couldn't agree more. I LOVE airshows, and go every chance I get, but these damn announcers can't shut up. Constant history lessons, and often I hear them say incorrect info! Let people hear the sound of these wonderful old (and sometimes, not so old) flying machines. Maybe just say the name of the plane, maybe the pilot's name, and then shut the hell up.
I keep saying the same thing on endless U tube clips of air shows ...the announcers go on and on with mindless endless bullshit ...we just want to hear the awsome sound
Airshow announcers date back before the advent of airplanes. They're circus announcers brought into the aviation age. "Ladies and Gentlemen, look overhead! The death-defying Great Waldo Pepper!" Great movie by the way.
steve IF you knew the real facts less that 20 MkI Lancasters were MODIFIED to carry the 22,000# grand slam and only 41 were ever dropped, and it bent the wings on the MODIFIED lancs !!!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Yes the wingtips would rise by about 12" when carrying the grandslam, the plane would also sharply rise by 500 ft when it was dropped but the point is it still worked. If the B17 or B24 had been used it would never have got off the ground. It would have carried on taxing ending in a crash, a very large explosion and a big crater in some field in East Anglia
@@johnn278 Not to mention it carried the 12,000lb Tallboy ship busting bomb as a matter of course. 617 and 9 squadron were the airmen who flew those missions. They sank the Tirpitz. It took a few tries, but they did it. Just check the range of the Tirpitz missions.
@@timhancock6626 Yes ive seen the documentary on it, they flew from RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland which housed 202 SAR squadron until it was disbanded 5 years ago. Yes those tallboys did some damage
KA114 Mosquito was built in New Zealand not Canada. I also believe that the fuselage for the Canadian build was also built in NZ from moulds built in New Zealand using the original drawings from De Havilland. KA114 first flew in approx June 2012 from Ardmore Airfield just south of Auckland. I saw the same plane in Tauranga 19 and 20 December 2012 - photos and movies to prove it.
The plane was built in Canada, At Downsview Ont, it was surplus as soon as it came off the the line, ended up in Alberta then the fellas from NZ got it from there and restored it.
Very nicely shot. Do you mind sharing what camera you used? I noticed you didn't experience the lagging prop issue with the CMOS sensors. Keep up the good work.
After watching this video, I can fully understand why people are annoyed by the announcers; 1) Most of what he is saying can't be understood over the engine noise so most of what he's saying is superfluous and 2) Probably only those who are interested in such things are straining their ears to try and listen anyway.
Barrie Rodliffe agreed! It's interesting when people talk of the best bomber of the war. Almost everyone will say that the Lancaster was the best, but there's a great argument in saying the Mosquito. 2 engines not 4. 2 crew not 7. Faster and safer. More efficient. The Lancaster was amazing though. All these aeroplanes with such incredible engineering and foresight...
I agree the Mosquito was remarkable, even the Spitfire carried bombs and was used for low level attacks on small difficult targets where pin point bombing reduced the chances of civilian casualties.
Barrie Rodliffe to fly any of these would be incredible. I prefer the fighters, but to fly a Mosquito with a Merlin in each ear firing 57mm gun at a tank or ship would be, let's say, memorable.
@@julianneale6128 Oh we knew the war was coming, but the government put their heads up their arse, and pretended Hitler was human. Luckily, Churchill had informer's about what the Nazis were up to, building masses of armaments in secret factories, --EVEN, the Soviets, in the late 30's, allowed the Luftwaffe to test new aircraft ,and, new Tank trials, on their soil. Unbeleivable---but true.
@@MrDaiseymay yes right. I alway find it amusing when people talk of being at war with the Nazis. The UK was at war with Germany, I mean we never say that the Conservatives won the war...
They make the same sweet sound. When I was a small boy they held the Harmsworth boat races on the Bay of Quinte in front of my families farm and to my ears the Rolls Royce Griffins used in the Canadian boat made a sound that in my memories sounded so close. The announcer said that they were Rolls engines if you were listening.
soaringtractor no, it's referring to where the particular R-R engine was built. The Merlins built in the US had slightly different tool kits so it was call by Rolls-Royce the 'Packard built' R-R Merlin to differentiate, as the engines were slightly different in ways. The R-R Merlin 266 when not in a P51 and in a MkXVI Spit was larger than the engines then built in England. The intercooler on the 266 was of the earlier type. You'll notice the MkXVI has a slightly bulged upper engine cowling (power bulge), to accommodate the taller 266, which actually had a slight detrimental effect in yaw.
@@jackbassett9365 Having done the research, which you have obviously havent, the Lancaster is a Mk X Canadian built lancaster using ONLY the Packard Built Merlins and the Hamilton props !!! Same with the Mossie FB26 and the shitfire MkXVI !!! Do the research !!!! Take the numbers/letters off the side and google and eat your hert out dumb ass !!
And everything you own, right down to your underpants is made in China!!!! What's your point????? The Merlin was designed in Britain!!!!! That's what counts, not who did the donkey work???? Before WE gave the Merlins to the Yanks, their P-51 mustang (Allison engine?) was an embarassment.
While you Johnny-Come-Lately COWARDS were picking your arses for two years, WE were holding off the Fascists for you, alone. WE then gave you superior military technology, vital codebraking information and a secure base to fight from when you finally joined the fight. WE broke enigma and Lorentz and shortened the war by years for you. We invented Collossus, the world's frst electronic computer, a decade ahead of anything you TOSSERS had, sitting fat and happy and profiteering on your safe continental refuge. WE also fucking PAID for every nut and bolt you CUNTS sent. WE were paying off our WAR DEBT to the US until the 1990's. YOU FUCKERS didn't do shit for anybody but yourselves. WWII was a business opportunity for you greedy war-profiteering SHITS. nothing more, nothing less. Go read a book shit-for-brains
They won't have been at the maximum power. I'm not sure but it's likely they could have been at around 2850-3000rpm (3000 being maximum), but a low boost pressure, perhaps +6lb to +8lb or so. They don't want to stress the aircraft or engines, even though I'm sure they could if they wished. Their all up weight will also be very low, with no bomb load and little fuel... They don't need anything like full power to get off, especially with a massive runway.
Julian I recently read an account of a pilot taking off and flying in a Spitfire Mk XIV, he used just 7 lbs boost for take off then 14 lbs for climb which was normal during the war but then at 10,000 feet he dropped to about 1700 RPM and 3 lbs boost for cruising, the Griffon engine in WW II was cleared for up to 25 lbs boost.
Curious what that Spit's story is - looks like a IX or XVI in silhouette, but with four cannon, a modified oil cooler scoop (like nothing I've ever seen before), and ID lights moved to the wingtip - to say nothing of the obviously RAF-inspired, but inaccurate, paintjob. Anyone know what's going on there?
I noticed too. I'm pretty sure that it's a full sized replica built from a (I believe French) plan and made of wood. The builder/pilot if I remember correctly is a retired airline pilot from the USA. He couldn't afford a R-R engine but could afford to fit an Allison V-1710 with a DC3 prop! It apparently has a great performance all things considering but there's only a couple flying...
Julian Neale Certainly got an interesting story behind it! One of my "if I ever have the money" dreams is a full-scale Polikarpov I-185. I wish any of them had survived the war, such fantastic little aircraft.
Intersting machines, yes. Unfortunately you've got a better chance free diving with a snorkel for Titanic... Still, these sorts of treasures still turn up on occasion. For instance when that team went to Russia to pull that Hurricane out of a lake and a local told them that there was also another in the same well preserved state. It ended up being a P39, but I don't think anyone complained. Haha
soaringtractor nothing wrong at all with the supercharged Allison. It was only the turbosupercharged Allison that was a real pig with it's huge reliability issues in cold weather. All those P38s coming home on 1 engine, providing the other engine held on...
soaringtractor Allison engine were a piece of shit. When the Brits specified the design of the P51 and the yanks put the Allison in it, it was a complete failure. Only when a decent British engine (Merlin) was put in did it become useful.
Just think! The British could have made peace with Germany in 1940 and came out the war. The fact they kept going, and resulted in eventual victory ( along with their allies) creating these fantastic machines of victory.
My comments were related to the Mosquito not the Lancaster. Unfortunately my reply was put in the wrong place. My bad. Also read my comment below to which you have already replied so no need to go on and on and on.
Not looked yet but I'll guarantee the 2 total bellends 'soaringtractor' and 'Mark Harrison' feature in the comments below, the former going on about Packard Merlins ad nauseam..... (Well I was 50% correct - but I suspect MH will be be along later.......)
Dale Burrell well yes but not quite in this particular case. The Avro Lancaster and DH Mosquito used almost exactly the same Rolls-Royce Merlin. The Spitfire used at first the Rolls-Royce Merlin and the later models used the Rolls-Royce Griffon. In the case of this particular Spitfire it's a little different, as in it's actually a full scale wooden replica (not a real Spitfire). The man that built it from plans he bought found that to by an airworthy R-R Merlin was extremely expensive and that it was very much cheeper and easier to get an airworthy Allison V1710. The type of Allison engine used in this Spitfire was used in many US built aircraft such as the P39, P40 and early P51.
@@julianneale6128 The Lancaster got Griffon engines and a wider wingspan after WW2 and it was renamed The Lincoln. It was nigh on obsolete when it entered service, but was a stop gap until the Canberra and V Bombers came on line. The UK also bought some B29s and renamed them The Washington, but they were not very popular with crew. My father in law rebuilt radio and radar sets out of Lancasters and Lincolns during his National Service.
@@timhancock6626 oh cool and interesting about your father in law. Just to say that the Lincoln was powered by two speed two stage Merlins, the Shackleton used Griffons.
@@julianneale6128 Oops about the engines...that's me put right. That should teach me to trust memory and not double check first. I've actually seen a Lincoln as they have one at RAF Cosford museum...but it was in 1990, so a long time ago. Of course it was the Shackleton with Griffon engines. That's the only reason we have spare engines for the Griffon engined Spitfires as lots became available when they scrapped the " Shack ".
@@timhancock6626 ah yes, I've also seen the Lincoln at Cosford. They even let my German friend sit in the tail gun turret for a pic! It's good theat some of the ex Shackleton engines still have an excuse to run in Spitfires these days.
That Spitfire doesn't look at all like the genuine article. Kind of looks like a mash-up between a Mk V and a Mk IX. I assume it's some sort of home built thing.
beautifully filmed a really stunning display unfortunately the commentator has a big brown stain around his mouth and chin ,oh do you mean he's talking shit well yes i suppose i do.Please let us hear the beat of those rolls royce merlins.
The twin-engined fast light bomber/fighter concept was brilliantly executed in the Mosquito, and it is possible that had the UK concentrated on it rather than on the Lancaster for strategic bombing, the air war could have been won more quickly, with fewer crew and aircraft losses, and fewer collateral civilian deaths. Britain repeated it with the Canberra, and would have with the TSR-2, but fortunately these never had to be put to the test in the way the Mosquito was. The US first adopted the Canberra, later built the F-111, perhaps best appreciated by the Royal Australian Air Force. PS: The Lancaster has been a frequent sight over the Toronto lakeshore for many years. Its sound is indeed unmistakable! Sometimes accompanied by a Spitfire.
@@MrDaiseymay Oh yeah, I know them. My favourite is strapping a dirty great field gun to it so it could take out submarines! They reckon the recoil from the 20mm would almost stop the plane mid air, wonderful when the plane was made of wood! Very effective though. 👍
