Two Cockpits, One Plane: The North American F-82 Twin Mustang

Подписаться 26 тыс.

Просмотров 26 тыс.

50% 1

In this video, we talk about North American Aviation's F-82 Twin Mustang, the plane with two separate, functional cockpits. We discuss this plane's roots back in WWII, what important function it was to serve, why it never served that function, and what ended up happening to it.

Опубликовано:

10 апр 2023

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 77

@neiloflongbeck5705 Год назад

This aircraft didn't become the F-82 until 11th June 1948. So, anyone looking up this aircraft might need to look for the P-82.

@reverseuniverse2559 11 месяцев назад

Oh an the props were put on reverse which was an added headache to the pilot/S

@anzaca1 11 месяцев назад

No, it's always known by the later designation.

@neiloflongbeck5705 11 месяцев назад

@@anzaca1you more wrong than Wikipedia. The XP-82 first flew in June 1945. At this time F stood for Photographic Recconaisence not Fighter. It wasn't until 1948 until F became Fighter. At that time the P-82 became the F-82.

@MonsieurPhilippe1 11 месяцев назад

Well, considering the fuel "efficiency" of jet fighters, the long-range escort role should have and apparently has held for quite a while with the SAC.

@tedsmith6137 9 месяцев назад

@@anzaca1 Not in 1945 when it was still the P-82. The F-82 did not start till June 1948 when the newly formed USAF changes all P a/c to F a/c.

@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus Год назад

I believe the 14 1/2 hour flight by a propeller plane has been exceeded by the Rutan Voyager in 1986 when it flew around the world in ~9 days, nonstop.

@gort8203 Год назад

Just to clarify, the F-84 could never replace the F-82 in its original role of long range escort. The F-84 escorted B-29s over Korea, but it was over a much shorter combat radius than the F-82 would have been able to fly.

@craigsawyer6453 Год назад

A nod to Cornel Jack Krout, perhaps having the most time in the F82. A man of great integrity, generosity, and intellect. He will be sadly missed.

@Species5008 Год назад

What rank was he?

@LA_Commander Год назад

@@Species5008 He was a Cornel. He served in the Acorn Air Force

@BlackHearthguard Год назад

@@LA_Commander He was a Dogwood bush?

@Riccardo_Silva Год назад

😂🤣😂Although not a very important feature in aircraft design, i think you are pretty right! This plane looked real cool! Very interesting video on a somewhat forgotten plane. Well done!

@gsamov Год назад

great video as always!

@thevlklng3878 10 месяцев назад

Now can we please get a video of the Messerschmitt Me Bf 109Z Zwilling? :)

@marcusmaddenov2451 Год назад

These planes were stationed at Bergstrom AFB in Austin while my dad was stationed there.

@merlesmith6794 Год назад

I like the loop antenna of the ADF on the left fuselage and the sense on the right. Those were the days.

@eivindlunde7772 Год назад

F-80 should be the correct designation at that point (Korean war), as the USAF changed from the P-ursuit designation to the F-ighter when they became a separate branch in 1947.

@barrybristow4646 Месяц назад

Love this aircraft.

@googleuser3760 Год назад

Excellent video👍👍

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Год назад

Great video...👍

@JohnnoDordrecht Год назад

Great video

@dallisb1047 Год назад

One cool looking bird.

@Dreska_ 10 месяцев назад

If jets came later would this twin fuselage style design have become more common as an efficient way to mount 2 piston engines to a plane? It was done a few times but never seemed to go anywhere but I think had potential, at least in military applications.

@BlackHearthguard Год назад

Wasn't the Skyraider the last prop fighter/attacker used by the USAF and USN?

@johndaly8060 Год назад

Appreciate the presentation. But I would adjust the comment that the move to jets killed this plane, Maybe 10 years later but at the time jets had no long distance capability so if you wanted 2k range you needed propellers.

@the_unrepentant_anarchist. 11 месяцев назад

It'd be nice if you could keep us updated every now and then on the restoration of that last F-82, and if they managed to get it flying again... 👍 🍄

@tedsmith6137 9 месяцев назад

It first flew in December 2018.

@the_unrepentant_anarchist. 9 месяцев назад

@@tedsmith6137 He could've said that in the bloody video!! Thanks for letting me know- now I can go on a hunt for some footage- I'm sure RU-vid will have some somewhere if I dig deep enough... 👍 🍄

@paulhowes5094 Год назад

My Uncle flew them in Korea at first. his story about his squadron got jumped by MiG15s was a nailbiter

@indridcold8433 Год назад

I was thinking I needed glasses.

@simongee8928 Год назад

Allegedly some way in the USAAF during WW2 told a rookie bomber pilot that he would have the best escort. The RAF escorted them to the enemy coastline, the Luftwaffe escorted them to the target & back, then the USAAF fighters escorted them back to base. 😮

@flightforensics4523 10 месяцев назад

I think Tom Reilly in Georgia has an airworthy 82

@kevinflick61 Год назад

It would have been extremely interesting if you could have found out how the 2 pilots operated in combat; which pilot flew the plane and who operated the machine gun, etc. ?

@BlackHearthguard Год назад

I thought by the time it entered combat the second pilot was effectively a RIO?

@anzaca1 11 месяцев назад

Whoever was flying basically operated as if in a normal fighter. The other pilot would simply be an observer.

@marco-boss Год назад

Inanimate objects. But very cool to see the different designs.

@mattjackson5254 Год назад

I can personally confirm the gunpod is a laser

@cabanford Год назад

I've read that it was the P-51s cruising speed that was the biggest issue, as the B-29 flew faster at cruise and the Mustangs burned fuel far too quickly trying to keep up.

@gort8203 Год назад

Can you tell us where you read that? I find it to be unlikely. Not that I consider Wikipedia a definitive source, but it lists the P-51 as cruising 142 mph faster than the B-29, which is a significant margin.

@cabanford Год назад

@@gort8203 to be honest, I'm not sure where I read/heard that. But it was probably watching some of the clips on the restoration of the XP-82... But then again, I could just be wrong 🤪

@gort8203 Год назад

@@cabanford Thanks

@dukecraig2402 Год назад

It's the opposite, which actually made any escort fighter's burn excessive fuel trying to match speed with the slower bombers, pretty much all the fighter's had that issue.

@tyo8663 7 месяцев назад

Range aside, I'm curious as to how the F-82 compared to the P-38 &, for that matter, the Mosquito which also continued to be used after the war.

@reverseuniverse2559 11 месяцев назад

After a few hours of the first flight both pilots had a disagreement and parted ways and the original Mustang was born 🍋 it’s also believed that the original twins engine props mangled each other on the first test flight as they were placed too close together and they forgot to make an open hatch release on the inside cockpits and forgotten flaps

@malcolmcarter1726 Год назад

And the one which is in airworthy condition, is the first prototype, the XP 82 complete with Packard Merlin V 1650s!

@kdrapertrucker Год назад

Actually was preserved from destruction by Wally Saplata. Who collected a lot of abandoned warbirds in the course of his work.

@luvr381 Год назад

Packard V1650 engines were American-made.

@brinx8634 Год назад

Good to know.....did the name "Packard" give it away?

@robot336 Год назад

THERE'S ONLY ONE THING MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN A P51 = TWO P51' s JOINED

@av8rdav 26 дней назад

The F-82 DID NOT come from 2 Mustangs. It was a clean sheet design and shared only a couple parts with the Mustang.

@carlyleporter5388 Год назад

Unbroken record? I see you're unaware of the Rutan circumnavigation trick.

@kdrapertrucker Год назад

You are not bombing Japan from the solomon islands they are just north of Austrailia. The bases for bombing Japan was the Marianas islands in the north pacific east of the phillipines. Namly Guam and Saipan.

@joeylawn36111 Год назад

I called it the "PP-102" 🙃😉🤣

@dennis-nz5im Год назад

Shame they didn’t turbo charge it, lots of used turbos from decommissioned craft, then a few feet of wing more, and two ball turrets and an upper machine gun instead of the second “ pilot “ . Crew of four and bristles with guns, scrap the 50 and take 20 mm auto cannon

@ianb4801 Год назад

The Rutan Voyager, crewed by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, flew around the whole world in 1976 - using propellers A F82 surely doesn't hold a distance record, for propleller planes, at all

@neiloflongbeck5705 Год назад

The record set by the P-82 was for a propellor driven fighter, a distinction that our presenter ignores. However, it might still be a record depending on the actual wording of the record set, some speed records are for flight around a specific course leg length at a given payload. However, the time taken for this distance has never been bettered by any piston engined aircraft.

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Год назад

December 1986, a wonderful achievement. This video doesn’t cover how awful the F-82 and its production version’s engines were.

@anzaca1 11 месяцев назад

@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935Yes, he does.

@ekspatriat 10 месяцев назад

@@neiloflongbeck5705 That's a pretty petty record then.

@neiloflongbeck5705 10 месяцев назад

@@ekspatriat it's like boxing. You have different weight classes so that you get a fair fight by matching, as closely as possible, capabilities. The Rutan Voyager had a maximum take-off weight around two-thirds of that for a P-82 putting it in a different weight class.

@1joshjosh1 Год назад

This plane aways confused me. 😁

@tedsmith6137 9 месяцев назад

You should correctly refer to the Twin Mustang prototypes as XP-82 and all production planes as P-82 till June 1948. Thereafter they were redesignated as F-82.