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TopGearNL 04-18-2007 11:23 AM

P-51 Mustang doing a flyby
 
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)


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

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Originally Posted by TopGearNL
^^ 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
: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

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Originally Posted by TopGearNL
^^ 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

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Originally Posted by MidEngine4Life
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


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