@@wilburfinnigan2142 The Pac kard copy was not as good as the Rolls Royce Merlin,Rolls Royce not obly had to show Packard how to make the engines but also set up a plant in England to fix faults on new Packard engines when they arrived. A squadron given new Mk XVI's the squadron leader kept his old Spitfire because it was faster and better.
Amen, when you stop and think about it the RAF really saved not only England but the world from fascism in keeping England from being invaded made it possible to retake fortress Europe.
@@conceptalfa Yes. It is in the markings of Czech pilot Adolphe Vybiral. He was a Wing Commander and wing commanders were permitted to use their initials as identification markings. In this case Vybiral used the first two letters of his surname. He was the CO of the Czech manned North Weald wing in 1944. He was an 'ace' but actually made all his claims (7 destroyed) flying Curtiss Hawks in the French Air Force during the Battle of France.
A few years back I was at Download Festival waiting for Iron Maiden to start their set when the warm up music turned off and everyone thought Maiden were about to come out but instead a spitfire came flying out of nowhere just above the stage.. most instantly knew what it was and it sent chills down my spine. The sight and sound of that plane flying over 80,000 people was truly amazing, I will never forget that day or what that plane stands for.
And why in the world, would you be going to an 'Iron Maiden', concert anyways? They suck, and that was 30 years, ago 😄!! Eddie's long dead👍!! If you're older, time to grow up!!
Hey sillylittlewillywith yourtinylittlewillie I keep telling you that I'm not British, but you don't listen, do you? You never listen. You just rant and rave about the one fact that you know and make a complete idiot of yourself. Keep it up, littlewilly. I've just had my morning coffee and I'm in the mood for a little light entertainment. Over to you.
Brilliant comment , You know thats why we won the war, our ability to laugh inthe face of adversity and of course good old Churchill, right man at the right time, mind you he prefered Brandy to tea.
The Spitfire saved us from a tyranny that would have engulfed the world. The incredible sacrifice of the pilots who flew these amazing planes will never be forgotten. RIP brave airmen and thank you.
@soaringtractor lmao you seem like an arrogant stereotype of your people. Although most Americans aren't like the stereotypes however you are the exact same
Santa Close I do. Duff means rigged to not explode. I am British with a Czech wife. All countries working together beat the nazis. Read about Joseph fratisek the pilot.
As a German, I can't feel thankful enough for the amazing Spitfire and the brave souls who piloted it and the steadfast strategists who coordinated it. Thank you for stopping our Ancestors.
As an American, I cannot tell you how much I respect your comment and your historical perspective. National Socialism was a madness that possessed the German people and drove them to do things their parents could not imagine. Now I see madness possessing the American people, driving our society to do things my parents could not imagine, and I wonder how long it will be before God raises up souls to stop us.
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Well....guess it´s still a Merlin engine... don´t matter if Packard bulit them on contract from Rolls Royce..still a good sounding engine
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Poor Wilbut, you hate it that the British made the best aircraft and best aero engines, Packard was paid by Rolls Royce to make Merlin engines, shown by Rolls Roycce how to make them and the original engine in this Spitfire went through the Rolls Royce plant that was set up to correct faults with the Packard copies.
Saw both a Spit and a Hurricane do high speed low level passes at an airshow when i was stationed in England......it was better than any of the flying I've seen done by modern jet fighters. The Spitfire is the most beautiful airplane ever designed and flown
And to think Mitchell thought the name ''Spitfire'' was silly, whereas , his choice was absolutely fantastic---'' The Shrew '' . Great aircraft designer, lousy product advertising man.
The Velo In The Vale nah, without the US bombing in other places besides Normandy, the Soviet Union’s pressure, and the amount of Naval power( Mostly US).
Beautifully captured footage of a magnificent aircraft being flown by a pilot doing an excellent job of showing it to the audience. Along with a sound track worthy of the word Awesome! Many thanks PaddyPatrone
@@wilburfinnigan2142 A Packard copy of the Rolls Royvce Merlin,m made in USA and fixed in England before being put into a few Spitfires. The best Spitfires had geniune Rolls Royce engines.
That's one of the cleanest, most realistic recordings I've heard of the engine. I've been to the Hamilton Air Show in Canada and they have a flying Lancaster. The sound of 4 engines synchronized is a huge heavy wave of throbs that goes right through you. My father machined the engine parts at RR outside of Glasgow. He said a few times that he wondered what was going through the minds of civilians in Germany when hundreds and hundreds of these monsters where throbbing in the skies above them during the "thousand bomber" raids.
charlieross Both the $hitfire MkXVI and the Canadian Mk X Lancasters ALL used ONLY the Made in AMERICA PACKARD merlins !!! FTI Packard delivered 37,137 merlins to the Brits !!! Also 3,040 British built MkBIII Lancasters were powered by the Packard Merlin !!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142Wilbut the ingorant, Rolls Royce paid Packard, showed Packard how to make aero engines and set up a plant in England to fix the faults with the Packard copies. Rolls Royce also made over 85,000 Merlin engines all Griffon engines and jet engines as well as all of the design and development.
Many years ago I was talking with a guy who worked on Merlin's in service and he said you could always tell the Paisley ones because they even polished the inside of the exhaust ports. He maintained they were the best produced of all the Merlins
The Renumerator... agreed sir... However nothing beat the shear Horsepower, tourqe, and reliability of the P&W R2800!!! The work horse of the Air. The Merlin was a complicated, complex peice of machinery. Bad thing to is that the watercooled powerplants couldmt take the damage and punishment as the radail engine aircraft....But the Merlin is the sweetest amd the spitfire and mustang are both bad ass...as all war birds are.
Miller. The P & W 2800 was almost as powerful as the Rolls Royce Griffon, it was less reliable and fighters fitted with it could not keep up with a Spitfire. Maybe the Spitfire was a harder target since they did not seem to suffer much in the way of engine damage.
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Slightly faster and with more range because of the British drop tanks. but only with a Rolls Royce engine, the P 51 had much les acceleration, climb, dive speed and manoevrability, a Spitfire could get on the tail of a Mustang and the Mustang pilot could do nothing about it. I take the words of USAAF pilots who flew both, "After a Spitfire every other aircraft is inferior"
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Who cares Wilbut, they were designed and developed by Rolls Royce, Packard was paid to make them and it took Rolls Royce to put real Merlin engines in a few P 51's to show it could be done.
The best plane of ww2 is highly debatable. The best SOUNDING plane, is not. Nothing comes close it, you don't even have to see the plane to know it's a Merlin.
steke Hey dumb ass do the research !!! Packard in the USA was contracted with by RR in 1940 to build the Merlin as an off shore shadow factory and Packard built 55,525 Merlin engines up until late 1945 !!!!! Get informed or STFU !!! Ford /UK also built 33,000 !!! Only 2/3 rds of the merlins were built in the UK !!! DUUUUUHHHHH!!!!
WF : 1. Ford UK in 1940 was solely a British Factory No Septics at all and if Lord Beaverbrook told them to build Chairs they would have built chairs So stop trying to get Kudos for Ford US And you Irish fool. Packard had two resident Rolls Royce Engineers that virtually ran the show
@soaringtractor True. That aircraft is a Mk.XVIe which was originally fitted with a Packard-built Merlin. All the Mk.XVI Spitfires were assigned to the low-altitude role, which means this one probably had clipped wings originally. The Packard Merlins fitted to the Mk.XVIs were optimised for low-level operation. What you conveniently forget to mention is that the British designed Merlin (built by both Packard and Rolls-Royce) also featured in a number of aircraft operated and built by the United States - such as the Kittyhawk and Mustang. Both of those aircraft were mediocre performers with their original (American) Allison and Packard engines. So you are welcome, ignorant Yanks for the engine that powered your war effort.
Yes, sillylittlewilly. It sounds exactly the same as the two MK IX Spitfires I saw at the air show I went to at Easter. They also had a P51 there, powered by your very favourite British engine, and that British engine sounded just the same as the two British engines in the MK IX Spitfires. But then, you aren't interested in anything anyone else has to say that you might even suspect might contradict one of your boring, repetitious statements. (Standard, filthy-mouthed tinylittlewilly response coming up...)
Maybe you should make a trip to your Evil neighbours so you dont have to be Paranoid anymore :) Sorry for my bad English but i think you got the Message
Awesome awesome...simply my passion since a child, and I'm 45 now. Best book, 'Sigh for a Merlin' by Alex Henshaw, or 'Spitfire on my Tail' by Uli Steinhilper... both excellent reads. Nothing sounds better than a Merlin 60 series...
waynester did you know that the majority of the merlins used in WWII were the 20 series ??? only 7,000 of the 20,000 $hitfires used them, NONE of the 7770 Lancaster used the 60 series merlins, they were all 20 series !!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Wilbut, did you know that you are an ignorant plonker. I make it 7,941 Spitfires fitted with the Merlin 61,63, 63a 64, 66, 70 and 71. Did you know that the best performing fighters in the war used the Rolls Royce Merlin or Griffon engines?
The kind of symphony I enjoy, thanks for no stupid music...Somebody is having entirely too much fun...definitely better than rotating the tires on my unicycle...Gorgeous
Merlin's an apt name. There's magic in that, but Merlin was also the child of an union between man and demon. And that thing sounds the part of at least half a satan.
Excellent video. Sound quality is good, framing of subject good, propellor looks natural and not affected by strobe effects from camera in use. Not only that, the display was superb too! Well done sir!
@@tripwire3992 Do you know what the Blackburn Firebrand was designed to do? That is like saying imagine anyone trying to dogfight in a Grumman Avenger.
At least a formation of B 17`s flying over you could listen to the sound for ages, a formation of Spitfires would be gone in a couple of seconds. I would rather hear just one Merlin than 100 B 17 engines whatever they were.
What a sight! The mighty Spitfire! But total silence for all those young people who put their lives on the line and lost them. They died that my generation and my children's could grow up in Peace!
PaddyPatrone It’s Ron Eisele@ron_eisele Sorry , couldn’t see how to grab a link . I instantly recognised the footage because I only discovered your channel last week .
Nádhera podľa insignii je to letun 312 jednotky RAF som rad za toto video a skladám klobúk dole pred ľuďmi ktorý si aj týmto spôsobom uctili pamiatku ľudí ktorý pomohli priniesť slobodu. Bohužiaľ súčasný Angličania už na túto skutočnosť zabudli o čom sa presviedčam denne v uliciach Birminghamu. Ďakujem Vám za toto video,, Non Multi Sed Multa,,
Febrinaldi - be cause it had a high rate of fire, only used a .303 calibre machine gun. The germans used 50cal so the empty round to longer to eject... and what alot of the spitfire would do was light the sky up with lead and let the germans fly into it
Febrinaldi Supermarine management gave the Spitfire its name - they wanted something that would be memorable. Reginald Mitchell, the designer, thought it was a stupid name, but he tolerated it.
I`m lucky enough to live quite near a Airfield (Headcorn, Kent) where they have Spitfire flights and sometimes they fly over our house. I reconise the engine sound straight away and rush outside like a kid and the sight and sound makes the hairs on tthe back of my neck stand up. Its not just the sight and sound, but what it represents, the fight of good over evil. Wonderful, just wonderful.
Fascinating. This is marked with RAF 312 Czechoslovak insignia and flag badge. It has the squadron letters of RAF 88 Squadron which my grandfather also served in after the war . This spitfire, TE184 spent most of it's RAF career flying post-war.
My father told me his cousin was a spitfire pilot in the Royal Greek Airforce in World War 2, but sadly after the war he was killed in a car accident. I love the spit. It saved Britain, along with its brother the Hurricane.
@@MrDaiseymay Listen to the pilots who flew them, USAAF pilot Charles McCorkle (who flew both in combat), reporting on a mock combat between a Spitfire and Mustang in 1944: "Now we could see which was the better aircraft...a Mustang and a Spit took off for a scheduled 'combat', flown by two top young flight commanders. When the fighters returned, the pilots had to agree that the Spitfire had won the joust. The Spit could easily outclimb, outaccelerate, and outmaneuver its opponent.
@@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren NO production Merlin Mustang used a RR Made merlin, ALL were Made and MODIFIED in AMERICA by PACKARD !!!! Allison was not junk it was actually a better engineered engine simplar and lighter being larger with the even modern for today roller rocker arms the merlin did not have The only merlin that out produced it in HIGH altitude HP was the LATER get THAT LATER 60 series 2 stage supercharged version. The ALLISON in the P38 being TURBOcharged 2 stage out produced the 60 series at altitude, and the single stage Allison out produces all the 20 series Single stage merlins, the most common type used in the war !!! The real facts less the lies hype and British Bull$hit !!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Wilbut, you are wrong as always, Packard was paid by Rols Royce to mmake copies of the Merlin engine, first the 20 series and later the 60 series, Packade made no changes or modifications, just copied Rolls Royce. The Allison was an ok engine but useless by comparison to a Rolls Royce Merlin, the Allison lacke high altitude performane, it even lacked low altitude performance. The P 38 was a poor fighter and even when the engines worked didn't get close to the Spitfire Mk IX which was in service in mid 1942. You never have any facts, just the nonsense you repeat all over the place.
no, a speech from Winston Churchill actually "Never was so much owed by so many to so few" Sabaton's song is dedicated to the men from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Canada who came to the Isles to join the RAF to defend the isles from the Luftwaffe, and contains that quote from Winston's speech.
Actually the speech from Churchill on the 20th August 1940 included the quote, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".
ČESKOSLOVENSKO Jméno Vítězství Jednotka Typ letounu Bojiště Pozn. Kuttelwascher, Karel M. 18-1-5 1. peruť Hurricane IIB, IIC VB, NI 18+2-2-5 František, Josef 17-1-0 303. peruť Hurricane I BoB Smik, Otto 8+2-2-3 131., 122., 222., 310., 312., 127. peruť Spitfire IX VB, SZE + 3x V-1 Mansfeld, Miroslav J. 8+2-0-1+1 111., 68. peruť Hurricane I, Beaufighter I, VI VB + 2x V-1 Kučera, Otmar 5+2-1-1 111., 312., 313. peruť Hurricane I, IIB, Spitfire V VB Dygrýn - Ligotický, Josef 5+1-0-1 1. peruť Hurricane I, II VB Příhoda, Josef 4+1-2-3 1., 111., 313. peruť Hurricane I, Spitfire V VB Bobek, Ladislav 5-1-3 68. peruť Beaufighter I, VI VB .
These things are absolutely tiny inside, so narrow with little space. They were built for 18 year old boys, innocent lads. All they had was a tiny makeup style circular mirror to see behind. Incredible.
Brilliant stuff....my grandad flew Hurri...just as awesome....he was shot down 3 times,twice in same No a\c ...guess he was unlucky,or lucky,depending on how you look at it...(he landed the 3rd time.) but technically he was shot down...brave men...even the Luftwaffe guys...hardly any were Nazis...my Gramps ,respected them too...he said,I shot the plane not the man.