Supermarine Spitfire MkXVII - Low & Loud 

Hear, Hear!!

thats because the merlins and griffins are music to our ears

When the Griffins roar, music's a bore!

The Sound of Freedom.

If anyone were to put music over that audio they should be shot for treason.

@Suzukisan well done to her god bless her

Kudos to your aunt for doing her bit and helping to win the war. So many untold stories but each vital to the overall victory.

I recall hearing about this.Women pilots weren't allowed to fly in combat so instead were given the task of flying newly built spitfires to airfields around the country.Thats a pretty unique contribution to the war effort and I salute her for that.

Gary Price women’s auxiliary air force if am not wrong?

God Bless her. My Dad would of envied her,he wanted to be a Fighter pilot but his eyes were not good so he was attached to a C-47. The pilot would let him fly once they were up & flying. So thankful for the Greatest Generation this includes your Aunt.

i wouldn't even say its a machine, id say its a different form of species

@@britishtomlad3679 the nazi killer! UK 🇬🇧 God save the queen and our great nation!

@@JM-ij6qx UK Nazikiller? ha ha ha... "America, Australia, Canada, India, France, Russia.... and much more"... please help us to fight against germans "Wunderwaffen"

ME 262.

What do you think about bf 109

agree 100% .. beautiful aircraft from days long gone (unfortunately)

It's actually the RR Griffon 65 on that particular aircraft and sounds different to the merlin

@@merlinonline67 I was referring to Merlins and Spitfires in general, I wasn't commenting on that particular video clip.

rosandy123 My father was also a mechanic ,worked at Farnborough after the war I have fond memories of all the air shows

@@merlinonline67 Yes, I could tell straightaway they this was a Griffon powered version, the Merlin has an entirely different sound to it.

dannydanou same thing for a Black Hawks Helicopter and Apache nowadays

Totally agree, best statement on here 👍👍👍👍

Like Mana from heaven

CptF1uffy more like the warthogs stupidly rapid fire guns!

When the pbi needed help, they would whistle for a " Tiffie '.

Steve 58 I’m danish and have goosebumps all over. Incredible machine. Legendary beyond words.

p51 is the best looking aircraft of ww2

Cancer McAids no i didnt

too easy kill a spitty they cant fly inverted XD Bf yes the Eagle of the sky is Bf

@@joshthemigpro1733 A piece of shit until they put a Spitfire (RR Merlin) engine in it. Even then, it was as ugly as a hatfull of arseholes.

I can imagine being 35 yo and flying a Spitfire!

@@MCR_Slays.559 war sucks.

@@MCR_Slays.559 oh so you know what war is like because your grandad told you stories 🤣🤣 respect to your grandad if he was in the war. But you sir are a complete moron

Tremendous respect and admiration for those young men--"the few".

Not me not for long , my eyes are bad, more power to those who could.

Actually, and I was shocked to find this out, the one version of the Spitfire (can't remember the MK#) that had a pressurized cockpit and was intended for VERY high altitude actually had a single stage supercharger in it that was optimized for high altitude, it had to have suffered massive throttling power losses at lower altitudes but seeing as how it was intended for the highest altitudes that obviously wasn't a concern.

Hi Duke. The single Stage was intended for altitudes up to around 20 000 ft as the "-stage as itimplies was one S/C afterthe first sonthe already increased pressure/flow air went through another S/C to be further increased. That was the engine I worked on during training as a young lad all those years ago. The Spitfire 22 was the one with the pressurised one-piece bubble canopy. Of course by then the jets had long arrived and we had at R A F Halton the actual engine that Sir Frank Whittle developed in the schools laboratory. Oh the memories! When I think back at what I have done in my 81 years, well I am following friends and others who have suggested I write another book so I am. The proposed title will be "A Life With Brian". It is something to do in my dotage. www.spainvia.com

@@brian.deller8313 There were several versions of single stage superchargers put In Merlins, some had the impellers "cropped down" to 9.5 inches to be optimized for low altitude use as in the Seafire, others had larger impellers like the one I'm talking about, it made sense after I thought about it why they used a special single stage supercharger for that application, 2 stage superchargers aren't the magic wand people think they are, the problem with them is they loose around 200 to 300 HP turning the machinery of a second stage, the Spitfires that had 2 stage superchargers were intended to take off and climb to altitude to defend against an oncoming enemy air attack, which they did brilliantly in the BOB, but the Spitfire with the pressurized cockpit (Spitfire MKVI Type 350) was designed to climb to a high altitude and do a fighter sweep from up there exposing the pilot to the highest altitudes for extended periods (hence the pressurized cockpit), the affects of that altitude for sustained periods is different on the human body then just getting that high to get an altitude advantage so you can bounce aircraft that you see somewhere, therefore it makes sense to use a single stage supercharger that's optimized for high altitude so you don't have the added parasitic power loss of a second stage, typical single stage superchargers are optimized for around 9,000 feet and pretty much run out of steam around 20,000 feet, 2 stage Merlins were good to just shy of 30,000 feet, the Merlin 47 that was in the Spitfire MKVI (they only made about 100 MKVI's), which was a single stage, was good to just short of 40,000 feet, but once again it would have suffered what's called "throttling power loss" in a big way at lower altitudes, I'm also a graduate of aircraft maintenance school and have been building engines for the past 30 years.

@@dukecraig2402 Thank you for your input Duke. I was but a teenager when I worked on one during training. I was much more interested in the Jet Engines such as the RR Avon, etc. They all makes us proud to be British though.

@@brian.deller8313 Yea, there's something to be said about engines that are measured in tons of thrust instead of horsepower, like I said I was shocked to read about the MKVI having a single stage supercharger in it but once I sat and thought about it it made sense, by the way I'm American, but about one third of me is English (Theakston and Davison), the rest is Scot-Irish and German, I had considered trying to take over the world at one point but I couldn't figure out who to attack first.

I second that!

P-51 is beautiful too.

Nice to see a spitfire v mustang conversation on RU-vid that hasn’t descended into petty nationalism and xenophobia. They are both iconic aircraft that did a lot to win the war. Plus all that pettiness does a disservice to those who fought in and died in these aircraft.

@Magos Dominus tHEY DIFFERED IN THAT THE pACKARD HAD A GEAR DRIVEN sUPERCHARGER THE mERLIN cLUTCH DRIVEN

@@hoatattis7283 The Mustang was originally designed for the RAF with a Merlin engine

That’s really cool man

That's awesome

So do a lot of Germans!

Nah this plane was made after the war

The HardlineR judging from 5e bubble canopy and five bladed prop it was a variant of the spitfire made directly after ww2 most likely a Mk17 witch was made in directly after ww2 it also wasn’t even powered by the rolls Royce Merlin it was powered by the griffin

I agree, the Griff massively increased the power output of Spitfires, but at the cost of the aesthetically beautiful sound of the Merlin.

@@fishbmw cosmetically too. The later Mk Griffon engined Spits are no where near as good looking with that longer nose/fuselage

The Supermarine Spitfire was designed as a ballerina. The later model marks, equipped with the Griffon engine were brutal gun platforms. There was a war on and pleasing looks and sounds became irrelevant.

Nothing sounds like Merlin or as good..

I tend to agree with you. Merlins and the early Supermarine frames were artistic via the genius of Dr. Mitchell. Later marks were gun platforms and the less musical side of the Griffon was possibly the last sound nazi pilots heard.

Yeah, I did NOT know they literally spit fire on starting up the engines. That was very briefly alarming, lol.

The sound of Benny Hill and Monty Python

You just read my mind. I did just the same thing with the sound of the huey helicopter and it worked out really well. ✌

@18tangles that would have been magic!!

I'd love to see that too.

Lol😂

ASMR for Aviationists 👌

क्या

Agreed..Vulcan is a close second. ☺️

Me too! And you always know when its a spit, that beautiful Merlin engine 😌🖤

A sound as embedded in the British psyche and culture as the bagpipe is to Scotland.

@@MikeMakesUK That's a very good analogy Mike! Very true!

I didn't know Merlin could fly but he looks and sounds good doing it....just throw that wand out brother you don't need it anymore

Good to hear that, but the sound recording was more than adequate to overcome it, for once. Incredible.

​@@aprildickerson2065🎉😊😂❤k😊😊

Comedy video comedy video

This Spitfire is a Mk XVIII, it was first delivered to the RAF, the Mk XVII was a Seafire which was used by the Royal Navy.

For the record, get it right😄

Always been the me 262 for me .shark nosed killer years ahead of its time... spits are beautiful tho. And the griffon engine is a beast

Teardrop griffon spits 👌

All Spits are pretty......the poetic music of the Merlin, the aggressive growl of the Griffon. Lots of amazing machines came out of WWII....on all sides. Forget the politics of the time, look at the engineering.

Canopy yes. The mk1s with the small radiators have a prettier body as a whole. The teardrops were later war when the spit was a much larger heavier plane with more cooling.

They had teardrops back as early as the Mk VIII tests. Plenty made it for the war.

@Norbert Kausen, Norbert, i think you're wrong. No 2 squadron RAF CO-OP flew some tear drop canopies MKXIV sometimes in april/may 1945,some also equipped squadron 350,a free Belgian outfit, circa march/may 45.

waynemccourt YOU are WRONG !!!!! That $hitfire Mk XVIII is powered by a griffon, NOT Merlin, note long nose, 5 Bladed prop, left hand engine ????? DUUUUUHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

and you can bet she'd put some of the modern planes to shame as well.

Yeah. Go fly the toy one!!!!

Yeah mate.We seem to be joined at the hip. When I think of Americans, Canadians and Anzacs I think of them as Close Cousins not foreigners.

Not cousins Brothers

We need more of this 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧

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United we stand United we fall 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Fell in love with the spit at 6 yrs old, back in 69. Paid a dollar for the Ballantine book.

shauntbarry That Mkxviii is a GRIFFON !!!!! DUUUUHHH!!!! 5 bladed prop, left hand engine, long nose !!!! Pay attention !!!

jassonsw you need to hear the german aircraft sound

@@brigade1827 I have, not as good as this.

@@brigade1827 I retain the meserschmitd was throughout the course of the war the largely better aircraft, however the spitfire was deffo better sounding and cooler

Pete David keep your voice down brit, they were playing in your playground. If the tables were turned things could have turned badly for ya.

Yep , me too , cannot beat them. 🛩🛩🛩

I love them, but they should now be grounded, too risky to fly them in an airshow nowadays, very tricky to fly and prone to nose-over. Plus structure damage from long time maintenance and agying under elements.

@@thierryruellan6581 They should never be grounded, Easy to fly and very safe, if you do not like to see the best aircraft flying as they should be flown never go to an airshow, just like some of the very great old cars are made to be driven rather than locked up in a shed.

The reason for that wing shape. Because it was the only way Reginald Mitchal Could fit 8 MG s in

@@ramongraham1427 it ended up having 4 20mm cannon. I wish the P 47 and P-51 had 20mm cannon.

Same here..

They often sound like they're firing on 11! Different firing order from the Merlin, gave better crankshaft harmonics, apparently.