Planes of Fame Chino Warbird Air Show - Sunday 7 May 2017 

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TAOFLEDERMAUS NOT any more !!! They crashed it last year killing the pilot and destroying the plane !!!!

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Wolfeboronian And you "forgot the Consolidated B24 from which the PB4Y was derived !!!! DUUUUUHH!!!!!!!

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Thanks for your comment. That's a great story about cooling beer in an Avenger. Some of the bomber guys in the Pacific would haul ice cream ingredients to altitude for the necessary chilling.

Your quite welcome. Yes, I've heard about the ice cream as well. but I guess my Grandfather and his comrades had their priorities. LOL

Spawn 1960 A -36 Apache

I was basing my identification on the pitot tube design and placement which on an Apache was towards the tip and straight out where as the early P-51's like those flown by the RAF in the early days were about 2/3 from the wing root and protruded down with a 90 degree bend forward. I was unable to see the air brakes. The "Mrs. Virginia" is listed as a P-51A on the registry of surviving P-51's and is owned by the POF.

The P-51 was powered by the British Merlin engine and the American made Packard Merlin engine. Not an Allison

The US had good reason to use radial engines over inline engines. Initially inline engines were used in the new interceptors coming out (back when everyone thought that the heavy bomber would always get through) because they allowed the aircraft to be sleek and aerodynamic, thus it was assumed they would always be fast. However, the sleek profile inline engines provided turned out not to be as big of an advantage as people expected, especially in the face of new radial development which churned out some very powerful engines. Many designers found out that any aerodynamic drag issues could be compensated for by just using a more powerful engine. Furthermore, inline engines were not nearly as robust as a radial and had complex liquid cooling systems that just created another point of failure. This was especially bad for the US Navy, since they needed tough, reliable engines that could be counted on not to fail after being hit by just one bullet in the wrong spot (there are cases of radial engines having entire cylinders shot off and still being able to run. You cant do that with an inline). Radials were also cheaper to build, and were readily available at all times. When you think of their reliability, their simplicity, their ruggedness, and their power, it is no wonder why they were the engine of choice for most of our best aircraft.

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You are welcome! Thanks for watching. The annual Planes of Fame warbird air show is high on my list of things to do each year.

Looks like a great show. Also the tannoy commentary is really quiet which makes a nice change. Great to actually hear those fabulous aircraft properly.

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Michael Richter There was NO ROOM in the fuselage for the large and clumbersome first gen turbos and intercoolers. That was a huge fuk up by USAAF procurement to rely on turbocharging rather than a 2 stage mechanical supercharger. USE the 2 stage supercharger was invented in the USA !! NOT by RR !!!! The Allison V1710 was a hell of an engine simplier than a merlin and had several more modern features such as a roller rocker assmy and stronger rods. a 2 stage mechanical supercharger would have made the Allison a better more powerful engine above 20,000 FT under 20,000 ft the Allison Mustang kicked the shitfires and RR asses royally !!!

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I’m An Aviation Enthusiast And A Gun Collector And A History Buff, Your Video Was AWESOME 😎 👍

Thanks for watching and commenting. Warbird Roundup coming the last weekend of August 2017...

I believe they both had the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 engines.

Originally they both had P&W R-1830s; the civilian firebomber Privateers were later modified with R-2600 engines and cowlings from B-25s.

Especially when the Privateer is in silver. Have you noticed how each manufacturer favored the same shapes on different airplanes, even if they were different sizes? The curved fairing on the Privateer vertical fin and the curved fairing on the B-32 do look similar, even though they are both different aircraft. Then take a look at Boeing tails of the era, and the B-17 and B-29 look like the same family.

plunmeister The Privateer was a navy version of the B24, obvious difference was the single tail and not obvious was the high altitude Turbochargers were deleated from the engines, leaving only the mechanical supercharger !!!

taketimeout I doubt any pilot during the war would have flown both as the PB4Y was a Navy plane and the B24 was an Army. Maybe some of the ferry pilots might have flown both !!!!

I hope so.

We made several videos of this year's show; may not have everything, but here are some more aspects of the 2017 show: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9FRbI00mJmE.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gDCXcBUOYqk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O_mDVxYbsZk.html

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Please just know that we have to deal with everything from loudspeakers to loud people -- we only use the music when the audio is ruined, or when we do slo-mo, since audio in slo-mo sounds like a sick basset hound.

I'm not so sure about that. They're probably doing about 200-250 knots and yes the F-35 is throttled back but not even close to stalling speed. The P-38 cruised at 275 MPH but if firewalled could do a hell of a lot quicker than that.