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TopGearNL
04-18-2007, 11:23 AM
Mustang does a low pass at 350 knots. Turn your speakers up and listen to that amazing Rolls Royce Merlin engine growling! (Same engine as the Spitfire)

P-51 burns up the field - YouTube

Although the Spitfire is my most favorite WW2 plane this is the best fighter plane of that era IMO!
harryo2b
04-18-2007, 12:16 PM
I've met one of the few WWII aces still alive that piloted a P-51. Lt. Col. Empey USAAF and heard his stories first hand of how he took down German ME-109's and JU-88's over Europe. He said if it weren't for the P-51 he may have been taken out long ago. His plane was known as the Little Ambassador and to hear a WWII fighters story is amazing.
TopGearNL
04-18-2007, 12:19 PM
^^ I can believe that, Im always fascinated by the dog-fight stories! And the Spitfire may have saved Britain, but the Mustang won the war!
pagani
04-18-2007, 12:26 PM
^^ I can believe that, Im always fascinated by the dog-fight stories! And the Spitfire may have saved Britain, but the Mustang won the war!

Great video btw
Thats a stock merlin v12
Have you ever heard the sound of tuned merlin v12
YouTube
YouTube
:D 8)
TopGearNL
04-18-2007, 12:37 PM
^^ Very nice :D

Rather see an old Warplane in action then one of those Redbull airraces planes..
Schwalbe
04-18-2007, 01:58 PM
The sound of the Merlin engine has really its own sound characteristic. :)

BTW, my favorite WW2 piston-engine will be always the Focke-Wulf 190D-9...Horrido ! :twisted:
sentra_dude
04-18-2007, 02:13 PM
Awesome video, I love the sound of a Merlin V-12 roaring past! :D
MidEngine4Life
04-18-2007, 02:34 PM
Some guy owns one at the airport I work at. The first time he took off I was inside and that sound was unmistakable. I ran out so fast, my co-workers were amazed I knew what it was just by the sound.
pagani
04-18-2007, 02:39 PM
^^ Very nice :D

Rather see an old Warplane in action then one of those Redbull airraces planes..

I love the warbirds and planes of the redbull airrace.
:D 8)
TopGearNL
04-18-2007, 03:06 PM
Some guy owns one at the airport I work at. The first time he took off I was inside and that sound was unmistakable. I ran out to see so fast

Fantastic! I can imagine that, sends a shiffer down somebody's shine that! :D