382 mph @15k on the Allison motor, amd 700 mi range on internal fuel ;at the time the front line fighter for RAF was the Spitfire V thay was getting ripped apart by the FW-190A ( during the Dieppe raid a Canadain pilot in a Mustang blew apart an FW 190) It was the Brits ( RAF) who first took the Mustang- then powered by a merlin variant engine to Germany as bomber escorts and used the Mustang when the USAAF was stuck on the tubby P-47 and maintenance plagued P-38. When the Spitfire XIV came along , the UK still used the Mustang (III/IV) to shoot down V-1 rocket bombs The Brits had the marvelous Spitfire, the sturdy Hurricane amd loved the P-40 warhawk but they knew the P-51 Mustang was a thoroughbred thay complimented their stable of Spitfires.... " the Mustang can't do what a Spitfire can but it can do it over Germany "
@MrSpitfire4u26 күн бұрын
I am making a new film about the Grand Slam bomb and would like to feature the black and white footage of the loading. Can you let me know where the original footage can be obtained showing the Grand Slam bomb on the H Trolley being reversed under the aircraft.
@Timmers-xb3vh26 күн бұрын
Glad I stumbled into this video. My Father… Frank A Michalek was one of the Original test pilots for this aircraft. I remember him telling me stories of this plane.
@gordonmorrow28 күн бұрын
Wow! Incredible archive footage of a magnificent flying machine from almost a century ago. Perhaps in another 100 years, advances in material technology will bring the return of colossal airships - filled with helium of course.
@marekryszardАй бұрын
I'm totally digging that song. Seems so appropriate to the footage.
@shreyas7372Ай бұрын
Wow.
@blasgrana5877Ай бұрын
Super Connie is as beautiful as badass sounding...
@AbitibidougАй бұрын
I figured that a steam engine would be too heavy for powered flight, where you wouldn't have a sufficient power to weight ratio for it to fly. I stand corrected.
@austinbevis4266Ай бұрын
I saw the landing gear of this up close today. Never seen such a big lump of rubber in my life
@peterschorn1Ай бұрын
"Fu's'l'ge." If Niagra Falls were located in England it would be called "Niffles."
@MrStrocubeАй бұрын
Brilliant, old boy!
@lucianomateus351Ай бұрын
Como diria o Mussum:"caciiiiiildis, olha as fotos e vídeos do projeto e da asa voano" gostei da asa gentchi. 🤘🤤🤘
@garyhooper1820Ай бұрын
Gorgeous looking craft from any angle , designed Art
@gordonhall9871Ай бұрын
great flying -- no cgi
@WeimarAmericaАй бұрын
Thank you, this was a very worthwhile presentation on an astounding little aircraft!
@richardsolberg4047Ай бұрын
Wonder how well a modern steam turbine would work ?
@odisseo183Ай бұрын
We lost that elegance 😢
@benquinneyiii7941Ай бұрын
British lake maker
@Workerbee-zy5nx2 ай бұрын
Off to London for tea and biscuits. 🇬🇧
@ItismeGuest2 ай бұрын
Nahh im the only gen alpha here and all of you all are adults and already may have wifes and children
@cnfuzz2 ай бұрын
A b36 took one third of the total weight of brabazon in it's bombbays , think about that
@stronzer592 ай бұрын
Operation Paperclip, Germany has been zero since
@mikearakelian63682 ай бұрын
Notice everyone dresses up to fly....and get real service! Not today....I won't fly any airline now...with TSA n all....gimme back my big smasher...
@manoshdeng88682 ай бұрын
How come the video is taken from so many angels
@johnbridgman43103 ай бұрын
It's not the same without "Danger Zone" playing in the background. Great video though !
@billwendell68863 ай бұрын
Described by a Pan Am pilot as a collection of airplane parts flying in formation
@billwendell68863 ай бұрын
PS sounds like Buck Rogers' rocket........
@joguguyang3 ай бұрын
AWESOME!
@bobgibb27813 ай бұрын
That answers a mystery that has baffled me for over 50 years.
@toshi00593 ай бұрын
タミヤにキットあったよな
@stevelovejoy32623 ай бұрын
The man closest to the camera as the F3F is being pushed out of the hangar is my father, Ed Lovejoy. He was the 40th employee of Grumman.
@SgtMjr3 ай бұрын
Could a Wellington tow A/C carry a small bomb load at the same time?
@bighamster22 ай бұрын
I don't know whether or not it would have been physically possible (towing a glider adds a lot of drag and massively reduces range and top speed), but the mission was already complex enough without adding an extra one. Plus there were plenty of better, dedicated bombers available at this point, and there was a real shortage of planes and crew for airborne operations (so it was probably best to preserve them as much as possible)
@WgCdrLudditeАй бұрын
Wellingtons were not used as glider tugs. Tugs such as the Halifax had bomb cells within the wings. When dropping Parachutists or towing gliders the wing cells were used to drop supply canisters. By 1945 some had their fuselage bomb bays converted to paradrop armed jeeps.Operation Amherst is a great example of this technique.
@Baron-Ortega3 ай бұрын
R100 was better
@anthonyhitchings10513 ай бұрын
No dihedral?
@mrdaleowen13 ай бұрын
was that an Air Policeman guardng.
@laurieavery69653 ай бұрын
It is my understanding that Gordon and all of his brothers were redheads.
@lynnfarley78594 ай бұрын
My dad flew a converted PV2 bomber - it cought fire according to witnesses but I never heard why. Angola Mississippi was his last fight. 1963
@Turboy654 ай бұрын
Interestingly its maximum bomb load of 87,000 pounds is even greater than the 70,000 pound max bomb capacity of any B-52 model, and more than the B-1B with its 75,000 pound max load. The B-2 only has a 40,000 pound load max. In fact, the B-36 carried the heaviest bomb load capacity EVER.
@manuwilson46954 ай бұрын
...why the silly yank song at the end?...childishly inappropriate.💩
@philipansett53674 ай бұрын
Some of you have commented on the drone of the engines. After watching the fly past, the deep bass sound once it passed the camera was very familiar to me. The reason is the SRN4 hovercraft which used to operate from both Ramsgate and Dover also used four proteus engines and I watched it arrive and depart from the Dover Hoverport many times (it sounded the same from behind). The Bristol Britannia aircraft also used these engines. The Princess was an amazing machine but there was no market for it.
@shieldaigbencher4 ай бұрын
Probably all dead now. Please may we never forget them and what they did for us.
@EdMcF14 ай бұрын
I had the immense privilege of hearing Captain Eric Brown CBE RN talk about Udet's landing skills. To see it is something else.
@sinisterisrandom85374 ай бұрын
Still really cool.
@l.b.34164 ай бұрын
1:55 🤣🤣🤣
@Dr._Purro4 ай бұрын
ahhh yes the dc-4e a forgotten aircraft thats also my fav aircraft
@K-Effect4 ай бұрын
Amazing to build all that stuff and then throw it away
@patrick_02064 ай бұрын
40 we had flying wings, 50 we had hovering ovnis, in 60 we had supersonic airplanes that flyes in space, in 70 we had stealt tech and landed in the moon, in 80's he had nothing????