20 - P-51 Mustangs take-off! Humming Merlins fill the air at "The Gathering of Mustangs and Aces".

More Warbirds at • The Greatest Airmen! . On September 28~30, 2007, over eighty P-51 Mustangs and hundreds of WWII aviation Legends including Fighter Aces, Tuskegee Airmen and WASPs and thousands of spectators came together for the "Gathering of Mustangs and Legends" at Rickenbacker Airport in Columbus Ohio.
Many other aircraft attended this special one-time only event as well. You have to see and hear these planes in flight to appreciate the sights and deep harmonious sounds produced by 20 Rolls Royce Merlins powered Mustangs pass by!
In this segment, 20 Mustangs take off and form up to create a Giant "51" in the Saturday afternoon sky above Rickenbacker Airport. We normally go to the Reno Air Races, but this year headed to Ohio and I was glad we did.
This footage was shot using a tripod from a twelve foot high photographers platform. Mounted atop my brand new Sony V1u HD camera was a very sensitive directional microphone. The sound quality is simply the best! Enjoy!
Steve Kauzlarich

[@davedennis6042]

Wow That 51 fly-by was so cool.

[@MYSTEREFLYER]

WOW a 51 in the sky. Fantastic display !

[@WilliamKiene-yg7rq]

Americans are so blessed to be able to still see the P-51 Mustangs fly over our skies. America had many amazing aircraft in World War II, but the Mustang seemed to get lots of love. My father, Fred Kiene, was an aircraft mechanic in World War II for the US Navy. Spent much of his time on the tiny island of Palmyra in the Central Pacific, 1200 miles south of Hawaii. He said they were patching up our aircraft that were headed north to Hawaii after fighting in the South Pacific theater.

[@jacobr8063]

In my humble opinion, this is the most beautiful aircraft ever built.

[@niklasgindler4571]

I've always felt the same, but the p-40 is my new (old) favorite ... It just looks like a hotrod !

[@A1CLumadue]

F4 Corsair here! Had a bad start but a great finish.

[@kaliljardim4838]

i also love the f82

[@eolsunder]

I personally love Corsairs, to me the Mustangs are sleek, small and smooth stinging bees, but the corsairs are winged hawks.

[@HUEEY]

Im on the edge between the mustang and the corsair but all of these legendary flying machines are as much as a masterpiece in its self as that of a museum piece!

[@davidwinston6721]

Whoever produced this and did not put a music soundtrack on top of the engines. THANK YOU!

[@pierrebras9717]

David Winston k

[@subliutenant]

The scream of Merlins is Music, my kind of Music! Yeah!!! Nice to see a couple of "B's" in there as well!

[@digitalranger4259]

Sounds like freedom.

[@tony261053]

Beautiful

[@billestes4335]

@@subliutenant And a few H model tall tails. Yahhhh!

[@Tapperlite1]

Almost brings a tear to your eye, to see all those old war birds that still have their roar. Their pilot's may have aged and may soon be no longer with us... Will always remember.

[@WarbirdVideos]

Check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2i1p5SqiKZ_jpI - Steve

[@gsp49]

Tapperlite1 , I've seen a 16 year old girl flying one.

[@buckeyec]

almost?

[@johnosbourn4312]

Tapperlite1 Amen.

[@midsouthexpress]

A lump in the throat and a tear to the eye..

[@paulciprus9582]

I was there…..it was truly amazing….when they flew over in the 51….it just took your breath away….😀😀.

[@bisonfunyuns4988]

That "51" they made in the sky was dope

[@lisaclayton2281]

This comment made me realize what the number 51 meant, I feel dumb now lol

[@thierryruellan6581]

In France, 51 is a liquor's name, pastis 51. Absolutely not related here.

[@roguesheep3083]

@@thierryruellan6581 i'm drunk too. Stay well, mon amis.😄

[@richs7362]

I believe they wanted to do a spelling of MUSTANG but time and weather became a interfered....I was there.

[@richs7362]

That's weather interfered. (typing to fast)

[@formerparatrooper]

I was at this air show in Columbus and met a number of these pilots including some of the Tuskegee airmen. What a magnificent Gathering of Mustangs this was.

[@scatton61]

After the Spitfire :-)

[@aaronnelson7702]

Imagine what those 100-300 bomber formations sounded like.

[@chpman2013]

or looked like from the contrails...must've looked like someone dragging a white paint brush across the sky.

[@hazelwood55]

My dad was at Normandy a couple of days after D-day. One of the last things he could talk about and remember (before Alzheimer's took over) was seeing so many planes in the sky that it looked like you could walk from wing tip to wing tip and never fall to the ground. One time I saw a B-17 and a B-19 flying to the Dayton Air Show and the noise was deafening. Sometimes I look up into the sky and wonder what a sky full of planes looked and sounded like.

[@americanpanzer4163]

@@hazelwood55 I do that quite a bit especially on days without a single cloud in the sky and a dogfight happening up in the air with the black puff from AA guns

[@BillFromTheHill100]

It sounded like death. If you were on the ground.

[@cliff9708]

More like 800-1200

[@khatarootube]

Music to my ears. I was fortunate and won a raffle to fly in one. The ride of my life!!

[@kensanity178]

I've always daydreamed about getting some flying lessons, buying a plane. The p51 is the stuff dreams are made of. Just seeing one of them in the air really starts ramping up the dream.

[@alexg2915]

First toy I’d buy if I ever won the lottery. I have some rental properties near an airport where there are 2 P51s. My helpers run outside when I tell them that a P51 is coming. 1 minute later , through the trees , there she is . I keep telling them that the engine has a distinct roar that goes right through you . I was remodeling a bath at the airport and the hanger owner called me outside . There was an F86 strapped down conducting a full power engine test . Very cool.

[@carolanncesare7170]

I FLEW IN THE COLLIN’S FOUNDATION P-51 “TOULOOSE NUTS’’ IN 2019 , I DID IT TO HONOR THE UNCLE I LOST IN KOREA FLYING A P-51 1N 1951,I TOOK UP A PICTURE OF HIS MOTHER AND FATHER, MY GRANDPARENTS ALONG WITH HIS MEDALS FROM WW II AND KOREA. IT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST MOMENTS OF MY LIFE.

[@WarbirdVideos]

Check it out! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJmcY2aCqLiNbJIsi=nSYkVOYOkZrIqn9I

[@tragkfshnt]

Such sweet symphony of Merlin engine’s.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

tragkfshnt Those PACKARD MERLINS do sing their song !!!! FREEEEEEDOM !!!!!

[@sjflynn2010]

I love the Corsair and the P-38 too but the P-51 has to be one of the all time best designed fighter planes ever made ! In my humble opinion.

[@jimwilliams3517]

I never served in the military. I never got my pilot's license. But throughout my entire life I've been an aircraft enthusiast. And this is my favorite of them all! There's just something about it that won't get out of my head. Maybe it's the timing of when it came into service and all it allowed the men who flew it to accomplish. It's a workhorse that truly kicked some serious ass! I Love it! Thank you for the post!

[@Rustebadge]

Think I'm going to cry.

[@Lil_Thick]

The "51" formation was the coolest thing ever!!!

[@TheMoparman]

The...most...beautiful fighters in all of WWII, in my opinion. Seeing this just made my heart swell in admiration and gratitude. As the video concluded I thought, "Wow... history in motion right before our eyes. About 74-76 years ago, these birds absolutely ruled the skies." Thank you SO much for sharing, Steve.

[@barryl8857]

YOU MAKE ME CRY. THE SOUND AND POWER. A JET HAS NOTHING ON THESE BIRDS

[@vantonymccutcheon4518]

My favorite P-51S Mustang 🐎 is all my heart ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@partriarch]

Always impressive to see so many Mustangs together. Even without any aerobatics, just the sound of all those Merlins in synchronus raises goosebumps. This is what it sounded like at untold numbers of airbases during WW2 and the early Korean War. Have loved Mustangs all my life since I was a small boy. Never had a chance to fly in one. This is the next best thing.

[@partriarch]

***** You missed my point. No aerobatics were used in this video, therefore I wrote, "Even without any aerobatics..." referring to this video alone. My enjoyment was not lessened by the fact it was plain formation flying. I have seen videos of P51's performing aerobatics "IN FORMATION". Just search here on KZbin for "The Four Horsemen". They are a group of Mustang pilots who do precisely that at airshows. The conclusion you jumped to was premature.

[@partriarch]

***** If that were so, then how could it have become the premier American escort fighter in the air wars against Germany's and Japan's best aircraft and pilots? I must confess I've never piloted an aircraft, and certainly not any of the fighters used in WW2, but it doesn't figure that one aircraft without aerobatic agility could defeat such formidable machines as the FW-190, the Bf-109, and the A6M5 Zeke. Pilot skill is a good cause but not compelling. The P39 Aircobra was a fast, sleek, heavily armed fighter, yet it was not a worthy opponent in a furball against Axis fighters. Same goes for the P40, which could hold it's own, but had no legs for distance, and was considered verging on obsolete before WW2 began.

[@WarbirdVideos]

+John19501000: All fighter planes are aerobatic - always have been and always will be. Need proof of the Mustangs capabilities? Watch this video: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/o562gZWHZt51na8

[@partriarch]

***** I disagree. No other fighter other than the P-38 came even close to the range of a Merlin powered Mustang with fuel tanks. The German Luftwaffe had not been decimated over it's own airspace, which is why the daytime bomber casualty counts were so heavy once Allied fighters had to disengage due to lack of fuel. The Mustang met and thumped the Luftwaffe in it's own air turf, as well as the Zeros, Tonys, and other aircraft Japan flew to meet the B29 formations from Tinian.. As for the P-40, it WAS in service, in the air forces of other nations such as our allies, which is what resulted in the Mustang being designed in the first place, as an alternative to the P-40 for the British. Time to cut through the minutia and return to the original intent. My comment was written to show a deep personal appreciation for the aircraft which helped shut down the Axis over Germany as well as over Japan. If you want to go argue "apples and oranges" and talk about all sorts of other things, then go ahead. It does not change my view of the Merlin-powered P-51s. Find someone else to try and impress with your derisive remarks about a great aircraft. We are done here.

[@partriarch]

***** Thank you, Steve, for illustrating the point so well. I tired of John19501000's "...yes, but" seemingly never ending list of faults tacked to the Mustangs. If the Mustangs were so bad, then how in God's name did we ever whip the German and Japanese air forces? I will not respond to any more of his disparaging remarks.

[@captainnice9698]

The Mustang had the BEST sounding engines of any WWII aircraft. That "hum" is yum !!!

[@johnprice7303]

Be advised yanks...There are those of us in the UK who will never forget our debt to you!

[@thekingsilverado9004]

John recently there was visitor from Clairborne England here at my shop looking at my toy bikes. he said if the shipping wouldn't have killed him he would have taken a dozen home with him. He said the UK is still friends with USA over the big war and he plans to relocate here for retirement promised to come by play with my toy bikes often here. We got to talking and I found out my Grandfather served at the same air base his grandfather served at. I thought how interesting. when I looked at my watch... We were yacking over 5 hours out front of my shop.

[@superancientmariner1394]

john price As if we would be allowed to!

[@barrierodliffe4155]

We do not forget paying back for so many years while America did not pay at all for much of what they got from us.

[@182436hike]

..And there are those of us who will never forget what you Brits did for us and the rest of the world in 1940...eternally grateful to "The Few"

[@skipdow3]

Seems like a lot of us died over there. That would be worth something to intelligent folks.

[@The200pb]

You Sir, have created the greatest airplane video in modern history.

[@JuniorJr...]

2:55 the sound of death for the enemies!!! Goosebumps! Fantastic!!

[@jaguar8940]

That's exactly what I thought!

[@Mgp-Rc]

There is NOTHING like the sound of a MERLIN!!! Could only imagine what it would be like with all of them there at once that day!! Stay gold "The Cadillac of the sky!" (And my favourite warbird!)

[@paulciprus9582]

I was there....that was totally awesome.... I drove my 2003 SVT Cobra to Columbus for that show...stayed at a friends apartment....😃😃😃😃

[@kamikazeyamamoto4545]

Those roaring Merlins sound like two things: 1. Freedom. 2. Victory.

[@Brecconable]

Absolutely!

[@kukko83]

I've always been a huge warbird fan, but I had no idea that there's so many airworthy Mustangs in existence!

[@gdub454]

P-51 Mustang...big time difference maker in WWII..and a beautiful bird to boot...

[@daveshively3295]

I was out front of my house last weekend,heard the unmistakeable engine sound and looked up just in time to see the pilot do a couple of rolls. It made me happy.😀

[@WarbirdVideos]

You'll enjoy this video too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGGwcqlneK13r5o

[@bpp325]

Imagine you're a German soldier on the ground and you hear this in the distance coming toward you.

[@dnlcast2]

The remaining WWII vets are in their 90's now! Soon, there wont be any more left. 😢

[@madembasagna8846]

😢

[@madembasagna8846]

Sad!

[@patriot3431]

Their legacy will never be forgotten.

[@kengutwein9370]

The “Gathering” was probably the last great P-51 show in the world! For those of us that missed it this video is a godsend. The commemorative book is beautiful as well, worth buying if you can find it on E-Bay, etc.

[@cwm1150]

That is the sound of freedom, awesome to see those birds in the air. We should have kept a lot more in the air.

[@stevemehan7276]

Truly amazing …. Awesome 😮

[@1NavyAO]

wow, that was impressive. The P-51 Mustang is hands down, my favorite air plane in all existence!!! Great Video.

[@MrCurdog29]

I love the whistling sound the p-51's make.

[@davidwinston6721]

To Whom, Thank You for not adding an obnoxious soundtrack. THANKS!! Great Video

[@robertlong7033]

Now matter what else may be at an air show. The sound of that rolls royce merlin is what they came to hear. And once you hear the sound of a P51 Mustang you never forget it. It's unlike anything you have ever heard. It's unforgettable .

[@liarliarliar6495]

+Robert Long The sound of a Merlin is unforgettable in a Spitfire, Hurricane, Mosquito, Lancaster, or a P51!

[@WarbirdVideos]

+18tangles: well, since you continue this ridiculous RR/Packard argument, and so many love the sound of the Packard, I'd have to conclude that the Packard sounds better.

[@liarliarliar6495]

18tangles The actual contemporaries of the p51 were the Mk 14 and onward with the Griffon engine, They had a climb rate over 5,000 feet per rminute. I don't any other ww2 prop plane cloud match that, certainly not the mustang dragging it's huge fuel load and heavy airframe with a smaller engine.

[@liarliarliar6495]

Specifications (Spitfire Mk.XIV) Max takeoff weight: 8,400lb (3,810 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Griffon 65 supercharged V12, 2,050 hp Maximum speed: 446 mph Rate of climb: 5,040 ft/min (25.6 m/s) Specifications (P-51D Mustang) Max. takeoff weight: 12,100 lb (5,490 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Packard (Rolls Royce) Merlin liquid-cooled supercharged V12, 1,490 hp Maximum speed: ~440 mph Rate of climb: 3,200 ft/min

[@0909BlacKMan]

I love how they wrote "51" with their formation

[@EnDSchultz1]

American thunder in the skies. Especially loved the flyover in a formation shaped like "51"

[@SupernalOne]

Rolls-Royce sure knew how to design an engine - and Packard sure knew how to build 'em

[@paladin0654]

Thanks for the post! Nothing like a snarling Merlin. Unless there are 20 snarling Merlins.

[@alejandro954]

It really is wonderful to see them fly. "The cadillac of heaven" is one of my favorite fighter aircraft

[@moisessaporta9712]

Absolutely in agreement. She is a beautiful flying machine. Did an outstanding job in WW II.And yes, the sound of those engines is the one of power.

[@coldtofu257]

The P-51 has to be the most beautiful aircraft I’ve seen..it has aged very well :)

[@johnslade9358]

Absolutely beautiful display

[@wingmanjim6]

A fantastic weekend and an unforgettable experience of a lifetime ! Kudos and appreciation to Lee Lauderback and his "Stallion 51" team for organizing this exceptional event ! You can fly a P51 at their Kissimmee, FL facility - not cheap, but easily worth every penny, and a nicer gang of folks you cannot find anywhere !

[@briancollins8237]

I will never forget that evening after the show when all of the mustang pilots went out for photo flights and the runway came to life again with a similar roar. What an amazing even that was!

[@WarbirdVideos]

You might enjoy the early morning photo flight too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aKCmaYdjjNGKh6c

[@pjkPA]

I flew the P51D at Stallion 51 in Florida... was worth every penny. I've loved watching the P51 mustang fly over my house years ago which got me liking the Mustang... flying it just made watching them much better. It's hard to describe the power of the plane... set the RPM to 2,400... pull the stick back ... it goes straight up.. effortlessly!

[@Tankerc]

Herman Goering "When I saw Mustangs over Berlin, I knew the jig was up"

[@Robert8455]

One of my favorite war birds! To see & hear that many pristine example at once must have been awesome. My hair stood up just watching the video. Thanks for sharing.

[@Stryder46]

Same here. I put my headphones on, set it to surround sound and maxed the volume. It's awesome.

[@TheRobert2254]

Only thing from the ww2 era are the planes shame the men that flew them in ww2 not here with us today

[@staffa]

Unbelievable. Tears in my eyes. I wish I should have seen this myself for real. I neven knew that there were still so many airworthy original Mustangs in the world!

[@killingfields1424]

Finally, no background music. Just pure Choir of Growling RR Packard Merlins

[@spikelowry2724]

thank you sir, you made my night better

[@vantonymccutcheon4518]

Omg 😃 I love me some P-51s Mustangs 🐎 with those Rolls-Royce Merlin Engines sounds so beautiful ❤️😍😍❤️❤️❤️

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

vantonymccutheons.......Sorry buddy Not one of those Mustangs had a Rolls Royce built merlin in it !!!! ALL PRODUCTION Merlin Mustangs used the PACKARD BUILT IN AMERICA V1650-3/7/9 version!!! Yes they were different, modified, and ALL Known as the PACKARD MERLIN !!!! PACKARD built 55,525 of them and supplied the Brits with 37,137. Lets give credit where due to the AMERICAN production effort in WWII !!!!

[@boscocat123]

We were there that day! They were AWESOME!!!

[@mothmagic1]

What a beautiful machine. I'm a Brit but appreciate the functional beauty of the P-51. Form and function combined.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

mothmagic YOU should appreciate the Mustang, it helped save your Brits @$$"s in WWII !!!! DUUUH!!!!

[@mothmagic1]

@@wilburfinnigan2142 would have made the Battle of Britain easier for us if we could have had it sooner. It was designed to a British requirement at the start and was a pig above 1500p feet until it got a decent British engine.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

@@mothmagic1 WRONG !!! Brits came a begging NAA to build the P40 and Kindelberger/Atwood REFUSED to build an obsolete fighter, because they already had a design in mind why the first Mustang was built and rolled out in 112 days !!! Hell you Brits can't even drink your "tea" in that time. and the ALLISON was the only V12 AVAILABLE in the USA AT THAT TIME, and RR was over at PACKARD BEGGING for PACKARD to build the 20 series Merlin for the Brits. the 20 series Merlin was also only a SINGLE stage supercharged engine AT THAT TIME. you see dummy the 60 series Merlin was not YET developed late 1942 early 1043 when it became available. PACKARD delivered the First V1650/3 to NAA in late Nov 1942 !!! And The Mustang NEVER got a decent British engine as ALL Production Merlin Mustangs used the AMERICAN made PACKARD version used ONLY in the Mustang !!! Facts of History less the Hype Lies and Brit Bull$hit !!!

[@Piper8bw]

Cadillacs of the Sky !

[@rodmoraes61]

These airplanes are a legend. Wonderful...wonderful... wonderful... Rgds from Brazil.

[@reggiesterling6205]

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[@Lordlayton100]

I was there on the 29th, a cloudless perfect no wind Saturday. It was stunningly awesome. They even had a Zero parked there amongst other A/C types.. The best tribute I think I will ever see in my lifetime.

[@dalestephan6777]

Nothing like 20 mustang's and 20 merlins..bad ass!!🇺🇸🛩😃

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

dalestephan Especially the PACKARD Merlins !!!! !

[@watwell]

I didn't think there were 20 serviceable P-51 airframes left. This is really incredible.

[@BelloBudo007]

Ward Atwell Likewise about the numbers and happy to be wrong. Probably my favourite airplane and IMHO one that really changed the outcome of ww2 in Europe with their long range support of the bombers.

[@BelloBudo007]

***** Definitely not too late if you were one of the bomber crews that made it back safe thanks to the fighter escort. I think I've got it right in saying that the P51's with long range tanks, improved the odds of bomber crews getting home to base, considerably.

[@WarbirdVideos]

soaringtractor P-51s protected the bombers but were banned from "targets of opportunity" such as strafing trains and airfields. One piece of shrapnel in the cooling system is all it took to bring a Mustang down and also insured that a surviving pilot completed his tour in a POW camp. So mostly the Mustangs fought off enemy fighters at altitude and allowed the bombers to do their job. P-47s were ground support because of the punishment it could take with its air-cooled radial. By '43, there was no stopping the Allies - Germany simply didn't have enough airpower to fight off the attacks. Our factories were turning out massive numbers of planes and Germany simply didn't have the resources or materials. Germans repainted their spinners and ID numbers daily so our recon would think that they had more planes than they did. We didn't have to worry about our factories getting bombed either.

[@jimmytehgeek]

***** That is nonsense. The Luftwaffe was still very much in the war in 1943, especially more than 100 miles from the coast. German fighters were causing up to 20% losses on daylight bombing raids.

[@jonnybottle]

soaringtractor What the Mustang also did was save the USAAF's face. They had ignored British advice about unescorted daylight bombing and got a very rude awakening (e.g. 60 B-17s lost over Schweinfurt for a dubious outcome). After the Mustang and its Rolls-Royce Merlin arrived, the role of the B-17s and B-24s was more or less that of bait to get the German fighters up so the Mustangs could destroy them.

[@robgingervikingjohnson7031]

yanks you did a great job with that fighter but you did end up pinching our merlin engines!!!! brilliant

[@WarbirdVideos]

Rob gingerviking johnson: I think we all pinched each other Rob. Teamwork. That's how we got rid of the murdering Nazis and Imperial Japanese! That Spit is one beautiful plane too.

[@robgingervikingjohnson7031]

Steve Kauzlarich ive a soft spot for the mustang i really do i cant seen to seprate it from a spitfire as you said that (spitfire) is a fine looking beauty too to thank we had a era of men who have have everything for there countrys and homes to rid the earth of pure hatred always grateful for amercian pilots who volunteerd for eagle squadron and the bomber boys

[@robgingervikingjohnson7031]

was a joke!!!! and yes im aware packard built merlin engines for us

[@WarbirdVideos]

18tangles: If one is not proud of ones country, then perhaps it's time to leave the place that you are not proud of. Seems to me that people from all around the globe can't wait to get to America (right or wrong). Few Americans leave to become citizens elsewhere.

[@colinkepple7555]

Man, there's some flag waving venom going on here! Packard was chosen as the ideal partner for RollsRoyce on account of their experience with the V12 Liberty engine of WW1 and their superb V12 marine racing engines of the 20's and 30's. The other American companies said the Merlin couldn't be mass-produced. Rolls Royce never in their history ever mass - produced anything and by absorbing Packard's technology, they got the price of a Merlin down from 2760 pounds in '39 to 1100 pounds by '45. The co-operation between the two companies was total, mainly because the Engineers were able to talk to each other directly by telephone, without going through company managements. The Merlin can truly be called the engine that saved civilisation. Without it the Brits would have lost the Battle of Britain. The Germans would then have successfully invaded the UK, and any attempt at a later D-Day type operation to liberate Europe, from right across the Atlantic, would have been impossible. This made the Battle of Britain the single most crucial battle of WW2, in Europe. The whole of subsequent world history would have been very different.

[@NuclearNoMore]

Only one thing sounds more awesome than a P--51 Mustang: 20 of them in formation!

[@Medmann48]

I was at this show! I have never seen so many P-51's in one place at one time.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

The sound of V I C T O R Y !!!

[@Ford_Raptor_R_720hp_V8]

F-51's were used in Korea until 1953 as Ground Attack aircraft but suffered Heavy Losses to Ground Fire. That wasn't the sound of Victory in Korea but the sound of crashing Mustangs.

[@kynou347]

EscapeforMankind I think he s speaking about ww2

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

EscapeforMankind The Mustang did its job in Korea but paid the price associated with ground attack. No plane is immune from ground fire. and yes in WW II that was the sound of victory !!

[@barrierodliffe4155]

Wilbur Finnigan WW II the sound of victory was the RR Merlin.

[@phlodel]

EscapeforMankind Sadly, those crashing Mustangs included most of the best - the P-51H model. The P-51 was not properly redesigned for the Merlin installation due to wartime needs. The P-51H did not see combat in WWII and the production orders were sharply reduced. Almost all of the P-51H models were used up by the Air National Guard.

[@MartinMcMartin]

Thousands and thousands of horsepower, no silly kilowatts here! :)

[@superexcedrin6839]

I worked with a fella from Latvia, he was drafted by the Germans in the 1939 to serve on the Scharnhorst battle ship. He escaped to France instead and lived out the war there. He told me stories of often sitting outside and watching huge formations of B17's flying over on the way to Germany, imagine that sight.

[@MkVIIIMaus]

Wish I could have been there myself. Seeing that many majestic war birds of pray in the the air at the same time must have sounded as good as it looked. thank you for sharing it.

[@CMH-aviation]

i was there it was amazing

[@shitoryu8]

michael touse niceeeeeee

[@charlesharwood5705]

let's get all the p-51 and spitfire that are still flying and put them all in one formatiob

[@michaelnaisbitt1639]

Can't get all the spitfires that are flying and the Mustangs together ------there is not an airfield big enough to handle the crowds. that would attend--- great thorn tho

[@keithlemon457]

You need every airworthy plane with Merlins all up together - Mustangs, Spitfires, Hurricanes, Mosquito's and Lancasters. Now that would be a sight and sound to behold !

[@pointnozzleaway]

I was at an Airshow 2 weeks ago with only 3 P-51's ! I cannot Imagine what it's like to see 20...WOW !!!! The P-51 QuickSilver was there, and did an Awesome Show....

[@WarbirdVideos]

Thought you'd enjoy this one! The best sound of a Mustang on the net. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGGwcqlneK13r5o

[@pointnozzleaway]

have watched that one MANY times !

[@Stryder46]

Nothing more beautiful than seeing them peel off out of formation.

[@damianwootten3814]

That is 120 .50 caliber machine guns capable of firing firing 102,000 rounds per minute. 280 2.75" rockets....I think ISIS, even today, would learn to fear that!!

[@Allister12212012]

I would love to see that...

[@MrJdsenior]

From the ground, without anti-aircraft weapons, and probably with, anyone who's got at least half a brain would be literally in mortal fear of this war machine. Absent current technology weapons, which much of the world is, they would obviously be as deadly as they ever were.

[@landmatters4680]

John Sikes Absent current technology, so would a longbow!

[@gerkeizers4374]

Björn en Mieke

[@mcm95403]

Keep in mind that the liquid cooling system made the Mustang very vulnerable to small-arms fire. If I had to pick a WWII fighter to go after ISIS with it would be a Thunderbolt or Corsair - and I love the Mustang more than any other plane out there. Right tool for the job = win.

[@exs219]

sounds like testosterone

[@WarbirdVideos]

It is pure testosterone! And your flag is backwards!

[@vPanzerTank]

It's a patch, it is like that on uniforms. Usually on military uniforms meaning they move forward, always. Just imagine someone running with the flag on a pole. It is faced the same way

[@WarbirdVideos]

RedMoWarrior: the prorocol is stars before bars, asuming the same format in which the written word of english is formatted and read.

[@boydh3790]

Steve Kauzlarich

[@nojustno1216]

Me Indeed...when men were men before the pussification of America.

[@TheDirtflyer]

Awesome display of Air Power. Beautiful Roar of the mighty Merlin V-12's. National treasures of Aviation that won War 11.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

thedrifter PACKARD MERLINS Made in AMERICA !!!!

[@osten4]

Wonderful sound - I turned up my speakers as loud as I could. Nostalgia - when I was a kid these and Spitfires and Hurricanes were all over the sky. Rolls Royce Merlin sounds ingrained in my young brain!

[@rattmann36863]

The 51 pretty much ended Germany's ability to defend the skies.

[@TheWierdFish]

(Spitfire came first and could out-fly the P51, just saying)

[@0909BlacKMan]

No.. Only the later versions of the Spitfire, newer than the P-51 model could outperform it. The Mustang was the best high altitude high range fighter of its time.

[@TheWierdFish]

Tin Erceg Except even the early Spitfires could outmaneuver the late P51s. The P51 never got into its stride until it adopted the Merlin engine, and even then, as Packard couldn't build the Merlins right, they never has as much power as the Spitfire. Higher top speed, thanks to more advanced aerodynamics (the Spitfire was designed in the early 1930s) but the 'Spit could climb and accelerate better. And turn better... And in a dog fight, turning is key, because if your enemy can turn harder than you, he can shoot you. Besides, even the FW190 was superior in many ways.

[@0909BlacKMan]

Agreed, if they gave the Spitfire the long range fighting ability, it would suffer from lower turn time, maneuverability and climb rate, whereas the Mustang excelled in all of that while being able to reach much further and fight higher than the Spitfire, enabling him to defend the increasingly important bombers on their missions.

[@0909BlacKMan]

Foxtrot Oscar The sentence ''...the Fw190 was superior in many ways'' is just plain stupid, i'm not even going to bother to explain why.

[@dieselrotor]

Some 18 year olds today: I need a safe space Reeeeeeeeee ! Some 18 year olds back in 1942: Climbing to 30k to form up with the bomber group.

[@WarbirdVideos]

You got it. So sad for America's future.

[@okbuddyretard]

Ok boomer

[@dieselrotor]

@@okbuddyretard Sorry I triggered You. This Boomer forgot fragility. My bad. You okay now pumpkin ?

[@staLkerhu]

@@okbuddyretard you shouldn't be proud of this behaviour, little man!

[@kc72186]

​@@okbuddyretardBest part about America is you can leave anytime you want.

[@spreadeagled5654]

What a grand formation of P-51s since WWII. The sound of the Packard Merlin engines is the ONLY music soundtrack necessary!

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

spreadeagled FINALLY someone that know the truth about the PACKARD built engines !!! Good show guy !!!

[@thezanzibarbarian5729]

To see ONE P-51 Mustang flying. Awesome... To see TWO P-51's Mustangs flying. Stunning... To see THREE P-51's Mustangs flying. Mind blowing... To see TWENTY P-51's Mustangs flying. Have I just died and gone to heaven..? :-))... Americans. You lucky, lucky bastards... :-))

[@xevil--beast28x84]

Fuckin' hell, how many Blue Nosed Bastards of Bodney's are there? :O

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

Several squadrons.....

[@Ford_Raptor_R_720hp_V8]

Wilbur Finnigan What we don't see in the Modern Day Mustangs that they saw in WWII is, Mustangs taking off at Maximum Takeoff Weight with their engines at Wide Open Throttle and them barely lifting off the runway in pairs teetering on a stall, that would've sounded neat. That's what the old footage shows.

[@RailsOfTheSouthProductions]

352nd has to be my favorite US fighter squadron

[@jasonphan4631]

SeaboardSystem ChessieCSX 352 is a fighter group not a fighter squadron

[@kevinscotland7529]

thank god the brits provided the engines to make it a half decent fighter

[@FrostBlackbird]

Funny enough the Brits came to us to design a new plane for them but we lacked the motor so it was team effort. Sad it takes wars to build beautiful things though.

[@destensgaming669]

www.tested.com/art/makers/492418-packard-merlin-how-detroit-mass-produced-britains-hand-built-powerhouse/

[@kevinscotland7529]

SPITFIRES truly superior. and the Brits developed the merlin and you yanks realized your allisons where just not good enough for the p51.

[@destensgaming669]

american built plane, american built engines, bet you never knew we built our own marlins, we built Packard marlins and your talking about rolls Royce which weren't in the mustangs but the brit mustangs which wasn't allot, thank god for the u.s. Packard plant in Detroit

[@destensgaming669]

also the spitfire is just trash with range of 423 miles with the P-51D/k mustangs of 1155 without tanks

[@bradschwamberger1217]

I was there and saw this show. The Folks that put this together did one class act! Not only were there P-51 there but other planes as well. All day planes were in the air. Too bad the final missing man formation was not shot. As it was to all that have served.

[@TorontoChannel]

Don't know what else to say but this is just incredible.

[@user-et2dd9gl7h]

И это тоже красиво!

[@critchley3819]

Most Mustangs had Packard built Merlins...

[@barrierodliffe4155]

All Production Mustangs after the useless Allison engine was ditched had RR Merlins made under licence by Packard, the first 4 were by RR with real Merlins and they proved what could be done, it certainly improved the planes which was not much use before then.

[@barrierodliffe4155]

North American did right and took nearly two years to get a RR Merlin engine into the P 51, the P 51 still could not accelerate, climb or maneuver with a two year old Spitfire.

[@barrierodliffe4155]

brian critchley The Packard V 1650 Merlin was built in Detroit, it was a licence built Rolls Royce Merlin.

[@barrierodliffe4155]

Strange as it may seem early Spitfire Mk XI`s were converted from Mk IX production and some of them called PR XI, EN 656 which went to Greece was a converted Mk IX, I am not sure about EN 409 in which Tobin reached mach 0.891 with no damage at all, and later Martindale reached mach 0.92 in the same plane. The USAAF in their high speed dives with a P 51 could barely exceed mach 0.8

[@wingmanjim6]

Sorry, your perspective is a bit slanted. If you refer to the "inferior" Allison supercharger, it was a case of the Allisons having only a single stage supercharger. Not a supercharger deficiency, rather a deficiency caused by the USAAFs early belief that turbos would be used, but did not come to fruition on fighter a/c other than the P38. Early Merlins were also single stage only, and also later Allisons were indeed two stage and offered comparable performance to the Merlin in every respect. At that point, there was no need to try and adapt the two stage Allison for the Mustang or other designs. Remember also that the majority of sorties were in fact NOT flown at altitudes requiring the two stage supercharger. While necessary for high altitude escort duty, the two speed was superfluous for most other missions. As great as the Merlin admittedly was, the Allison is a far more maintainable engine, many fewer parts, few exterior oil lines, better cam/valve gear, better rods,FAR lower parts count, far fewer different fasteners etc, and much easier work on as well. Generally a longer time between overhauls than the Merlin, although under war conditions this is a highly variable statistic.

[@mcmax571]

The Cadillac of the sky!! And the sound of victory!

[@noahjoew1]

The Gathering of Mustangs in Columbus, OH was one fantastic sight! Just sorry my two cousins could not be there, George & Bill Preddy!

[@Rikki0]

Loved his answer to "What do you fear most"? As a pilot I can attest to the fact that it is indeed "the first 30 seconds after take-off".

[@awuma]

Every weekend these days I hear four Merlins as Lancaster VeRA flies by Toronto over the lake. They sure fly her a lot! Such a distinctive sound ...

[@captainh3831]

Such a simple, clean design and yet so beautiful and functional.

[@marvinmeyer1346]

+Captain Hook and who made it? the GERMAN ENGINEERING

[@redwhitentrue]

+Marvin Meyer To be clear, you are not really claiming Germany made the P-51 are you?

[@WarbirdVideos]

+18tangles: yes he was German and immigrated to America in 1929 or so. That's what makes America great. We're a melting pot with talent from all over the world. Schmidt was one.

[@WarbirdVideos]

+18tangles: yes he was German and immigrated to America in 1929 or so. That's what makes America great. We're a melting pot with talent from all over the world. Schmidt was one.

[@thekingsilverado9004]

Thee two most beautiful aircraft ever built is the Corsair and thee Mustang. I had a chance to see two side by side in Texas on a private airport runway. I had a dizzy spell just stood there in awe. How long I stood like a stone statue was anyones guess but I barely made it back to the truck. I wasn't used to the heat going back home there but this was kind of religious experience seeing the two just parked there in the morning sun. Too bad KZbin hasn't developed away of us sharing pictures together.

[@drum1805]

BEST airshow I've ever been to!! Nothing could ever top it!! There's still a lot of great airshows out there, but that was hands down the best in history. Enjoyed all four days I was there with the 352nd FG Association.

[@DouglasKostelnik]

Gonna be flying one in a couple of months!!!My favorite plane of all time!

[@PyroThunder]

Just one mustang sounds amazing! I couldn’t imagine the sound of 20! Beautiful!!!

[@johnmarksmith1120]

If you were in WWll, looked up and saw that, your day just got a lot better.