Merlin Flight (Mosquito, Lancaster, Spitfire, and Hurricane Formation) - Hamilton Airshow 2013 

We have a small private airport nearby. Some one over there owns a P-51 and only flies it Sunday morning at 9 bells. The sound has me running outside to see it. A few weeks ago "FiFi"(B-29 flew over. Yes it landed as a stop over at our little airport. The main runway is 2 miles long. More than enough for a B-29.

Yes, I'm very lucky to see and hear a Spitfire about twice a week in the Summer here in the midlands UK.

In the summer we get the spitfire over every day over Kent, UK. It is such a beautiful sound 😍

It’s a travesty that we don’t have a flying Mosquito in the UK 🇬🇧

You are so right. I'm one of them even though I'm 75

Nope! 😭

Absolutely not. Crying just watching this !

Nope your Not !!!🇬🇧🤧😢😢

Nope

No sir!

I was lucky enough to see the Mosquito at her 'introduction to the public' at Ardmore in NZ. There was a whole crowd experiencing man tears : ) It was truly wonderful.

@@drpobjoy483 My cousin drove from the other side of Auckland to watch that maiden flight. She said, after she turned off the motorway the traffic on the roads around Ardmore was so heavy she couldn't get near the air field.

No kidding!

DerMitten 100% agreed

DerMitten . Definatly,old boy!.

YES!

No my sir, us Brits call it the sound of VICTORY! and the sound, Of Honour!

May these beautiful legends of the sky’s rule for ever 😊

Can't imagine the reason for a thumbs down.

Wilbur, probably.

@@whitloli soaringtractor most probably

@@vicecapo8767 Yes. He has a stroke every time someone favourably compares the Rolls Royce and Packard versions of the Merlin.

++@@MarsFKA++ Rumour has it that he's had so many strokes now he is actually dead! He must be verry old anyway, if his well punctuated rejoinders were anything to go by, as, according to him, he not only fought in the Battle of Britain himself but taught Winkie Brown and most of the RAF pilots how to fly...

Totally agree but then I’m biased As a Rolls Royce engineer I had the privilege to make spares for these beautiful engines Just friggin awesome

iT'S A GIVEN

Amen to that!! 👍

Well said freedom has no boundaries

I love those Warbirds dude : ( when i watched one of my best P-51 clips (it is on my main channel, which is Vincent Planespotting) the Sound of the aircraft combined with the music that was playing, really made me tear up : ( i actually cried due to the cuteness and the freedom of that sound! it happened at Andrews Airshow 2017 it still makes me emotional to this day....... glad to see these Warbirds still flying

2022 here. Better keep this relic babies safe and away from all those gen z zoomers

What? The bagpipes?

@@markitgeek why do you Americans try to take the credit for absolutely everything? It's so childish. You borrowed a lot of our engines, tanks and aircraft. I can't believe you actually just said that the reason we won is because we used American fuel. You're a joke

@@markitgeek Britain, Commonwealth and small forces from european countries held on against germany, Freddy was quietly helping at least as for stalin he was friends with the Germans at the start. Everyone else joined around 41

@@oneenglishbastard87 Ngl I like to watch anime

@@bobswan6196 why do you take credit for everything, good lord without Britain you'd be fucked too!!!

The Canadians manned an entire group in Bomber Command, 6 Group. Quite an achievement for a country with a relatively small population. You'll be pleased to know that in the UK the efforts of Canada and all Commonwealth countries are well known and respected.

Porkibus and the PACKARD merlin !!! You do know don't you Packard built 1/3 of ALL the merlins built !!!????

@@wilburfinnigan2142 We know that Packard made some of the Rolls Royce Merlin engines and so did Ford of Britain. Packard was very well paid and shown how to by Rolls Royce. If USA could have made a good engine then they could have sold them to us.

@@barrierodliffe4155 Old Barrie, the reason Packard was making the merlin was for the Brits as an off shore shadow factory because the Brits could not make them fast enough, Packard built 55,525 total and the Brits got 37,137 of them. You are also ignorant of the fact Packard had been building aircraft engines as long as RR the Liberty V12 was designed by Vincent of Packard and built by Packard and several other aito companies, Vincent also designed and Packard built 14,000 M2500 PT Boat engines for the US Navy PT Boats and the Brits MGB MTB and air sea rescue, It was the quality of this engine that brought the RR people to Packard, Packard did not need RR to show them how to build engines !!! The sad truth is your last statement the USA via Lend Lease GAVE you begging B@$tards the M2500's and 38,000 various aircraft to save your sorry ungrateful @$$'s in WW II !!!

lazyhazedaisy NICE.... to hear a Brit acknowledge the help you Brits received from the USA !!!

@@wilburfinnigan2142 Yes indeed I could of said in brackets eventually but I didn't!

@@wilburfinnigan2142 Too bad you never give any credit for all Britain did to help USA in WW II.

@@barrierodliffe4155 What help was that ????? Be a Chain and ball "WE..." had to drag along to win the war ?????

@@wilburfinnigan2142 what help? Where to start? We gave you nuclear research to start, penicilan, jet engines, Bristol Beaufighters, DH Mosquitos, Spitfires and other aircraft, the 6 pounder gun, the Hispano cannon that you stuffed up and we certainly helped you out of trouble when you got yourselves into a mess. One thing you never did was drag us along.

1chish..... the largest user of the Packard Merlin was the Lancaster Mk BIII of 3,040 of them built in England and 400 of them built in Canada as well as 1500 Canadian built Mossies and 1200 Hurrycanes, 1040 $hitfire MkXVI made in England got the Packard Built 266 merlin !!!! The Mustang only got the merlin because Packard was building them in the USA !!! ! !

@@wilburfinnigan2142 Oh look if it isn't old WilburSorearsedTractorbotFinnigan again spouting his anti British nonsense and still writing the same nonsense 10 years later... Your numbers don't work out Wilbur Old Son because of the 168,068 Merlin variants built, Packard produced 55,523. The Canada Car and Foundry produced 1,451 Hurricanes. However those shipped to Britain were often incomplete airframes and about 80% were delivered without an engine and those WITH an engine had exported RR Merlins not the Packard. Keep digging that hole Wilbur.

1chich Aside from all yourBull$hit ALL merlin Mustangs use only the Packard built merlins !!!! Not one RR Built merlin went into a production Merlin Mustang, The Brits did NOT have enough for their use let alone send them to the USA !!!! PACKARD was contracted to build the merlin as an OFF shore shadow factory, for the Brits !!!! The Mustang got the merlin because the merlin was made and available in the USA !!!

I am fairly sure that there was a major difference in the way they were built, the Packard having the crankcase and cylinders cast as one piece, while the Rolls engine used a crankcase with two separate cylinder blocks, never the less, as you say, they were essentially the same engine, and a jolly good one! I stand to be corrected on this.

@@Purlee100 There was major differences in the Packard and the RR Built merlins, First RR Cast the head and cylinder block as one piece and RR had a special machine made to machine the valve sets and that machine was NOT available in the USA> So Packard cast the head seperate from the block so existing machine tools could machine the valve seats, also Packard used the Bendix Pressure carb from the start, super and the supercharger drive was different, as were the American made ancillarys, starters, generators, ignition. RR later adopted the seperate head block for faster manufacturing. Then when Packard made the later 2 stage supercharged unit Vincent of Packard used his designed 2 stage 2 speed supercharger and intercooler. Packard also made ALL part the same so parts were interchangeable and tighter tolerances. There were major differences !!! Whether you believe it or not !! !

All the Mosquitos made by Avspecs were for customers in the USA. So far, no one in New Zealand can afford one. The latest news is that another Mosquito has turned up in a barn at Mapua, near Nelson. The owner, John Reid, died last year and when his barn was opened up, it revealed an Aladdin's Cave of aviation treasures. He had a complete Mosquito, a P51, a famous RNZAF P40 from the Pacific War and a Harvard, as well as a lot of other stuff. The Mosquito has gone to the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, outside Blenheim, where it will be restored to display condition. Being the New Zealand experts on Mosquitos, some of the AvSpecs guys came down to help the Omaka people dismantle and transport the aircraft. I'm going to next year's air show at Omaka and I'm hoping that the public might be able to see the Mosquito. Last year, a Hudson bomber that Mr Smith also owned was taken to Omaka, where I saw it in a hangar during the Classic Fighters Omaka 2019 air show. It now features in the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre's "Dangerous Skies" exhibition ( @t ). The P51 has gone to Ohakea, where it will be restored to flying condition by Brendon Deere. The only ex-RNZAF P51 in flying condition is owned by Kermit Weeks and it is said that there is another in storage in Britain. I don't know what plans there are for the P40 and Harvard, but, no doubt, someone has something in mind.

Worth every penny..!!

LOL! I don't blame them.

In the UK. you can't hear the cameras for the tears !

Well maybe "SOMEBODY" ought to get off their ass and do a restoration and raise some money to pay for it...clearly your government doesn't care....

Wilbur Finnigan We have a Vulcan

Whooooopie Dooooooo ! ! who cares ?

3 of the 4 flying with the AMERICAN built PACKARD MERLIN engine....it was not only Britain that contributed to the great planes and war effort....without the USA's participation and help Britain would have been screwed blue....

Wilbur Finnigan Oh dear....Still british planes though. let me ask you a question Wilber....(changed agin heh!) Do you consider the F35 to be an american aircraft?.

Well said.

Don't get me started on immigration and PC crap--living with your head up your arse has a very high price tag mate.

Yes, I imagine the chiropractor bills are enormous - you must let me know!

***** You obviously have long standing experience--

perhaps I'm unaccustomed to what I'm assuming is British humor. But you're being sarcastic, right?

Alexander Lougher Made me laugh so hard hahah

Alexander Lougher Oh, I dunno! Sometimes the Yankie bombers got the right country!

Dasboot1100 Actually, it was a german wartime joke like most jokes....based on fact.

David

no

arrensmith The Lancaster and the Mosquito for sure were built with PACKARD merlins as were some of the Hurrycanes !!! FYI IF you do the research !!!

bowser you would have a Mossie if you Brits did not crash yours !!! ! DUUUUHH!!!!!

@@wilburfinnigan2142 Well yeah, pretty sure he didn't do it on purpose. And two people died so....

The only good thing about that movie was the Mosquitos - I saw it when I was a teenager, not long after it hit the theatres.

"In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked." - Herman Goering.