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Fly the P-51C Mustang! - w/ Flight Voice-Over
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2018
- Here's a new version of our North American P-51C flight with added Voice-Over by Kermit Weeks, describing everything he is doing in the cockpit. We had some viewers say that they enjoyed our previous P-51 flight clip, but wished they knew what Kermit was pointing out throughout the flight. Take the ride again and hear Kermit describe first hand everything he does in the cockpit, as well as offer some interesting information along the way. If you enjoy this, let us know and we'll do the same type of voice-over for the Grumman Duck and Wildcat flights too.
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14 years ago on my 70th birthday, after breakfast, my wife said ... get ready, I'm taking you for a surprise for your Birthday! OK! she had this wonderful plan to take me to an air show! An hour later we were at the Air Museum in Michigan. We parked (she drove the whole way) she paid the admission and we entered... just then two P-51s came over at low altitude, The P-51 engine has a very wonderful sound, If I were the enemy on the ground I would have been terrified! Thanks Honey, I will never forget that Birthday.
Bob C you're 84 !! may God bless you!!
@@smarty1064 Keep your religion to yourself
Run out of your Lithium script? After one month in response to a comment that had nothing to do with you, what a little schizophrenic you are.
She sounds like a keeper!
I have to add here--because you're not the only one-
When my son was in 4th grade, we drove from Roswell, NM, to Midland forthe big CAF show. As we got there, waiting in line for entry, a pair of Mustangs took off, and my son announced proudly to the crowd "It's an official air show, dad. There are P-51's flying!"
He's now 35 and working for a major aircraft manufacturer...
I much prefer this style. Explaining what your doing and motor noise. That is all we need.
A wish come true!!! Clear voice, no music but twelve pistons and a slipstream. Well done!!
Now I know why my Dad loved to fly the P-51D in WWII. Thanks for the ride.
can't belive that airplane is about 70years old, one of the most beautiful machine.
Kermit has a DJ quality to his voice, which makes it enjoyable to listen to him talk airplanes for hours! I think that Mustang might be my favorite!
Voice-over adds SO much to the flight! Thanks for the videos...
It is always great to fly that beautiful P51C with you Thanks!!
Beautiful lady! My dad loved this aircraft, as he was in ordinance in WWII in European and N. African theatres. He also supplied P-38s.
Twenty year private pilot with my tailwheel endorsement in a Super Decathlon (which is nowhere near as powerful as this), it has been a longtime dream of mine to fly a Mustang! So I really appreciate your videos. Thanks
KERMIT is KING!! What a GREAT guy!! We love you KERMIT from the UK Near London!
I’m always amazed by the workload on these WW2 era planes and how kids (!) managed to fly and fight with these at the same time. On 20 or so hours training sometimes
Kermit you have the most incredible life in aviation, i can only ever dream of being able to take a flight in a ww2 warbird! thank you for giving me the opportunity to ride along with you in your awsome collection of warbirds on your channel.
I really enjoyed the voice over Thanks a big bunch for doing it!!
What really impresses me, is the body language displays the same metronomic level of calm professional precision despite what's happening. It's as though the flying just occurs. Amazing skill.
What a blessing you are to this country and to aviation in general.
it's 10 times better rather than crappy audio from the recorded radio transmitted.its simple not exaggerated, perfect!
The added voice-over makes a good video even better for me. Thanks for bring the joy of flying these historic treasures to we, mud-bound souls who will probably never know what it is like to sit in a Mustang, let alone fly one.
It’s amazing to me the level of complexity on something that was made 85 years ago. I can’t imagine how long it takes to learn how to operate this thing safely.
Two of the best in one. Tuskegee and the P-51. 👍
Ever since i was kid the P51 was one of my favorites. I agree, there is nothing like the sound of the Merlin. Wonderful video & narration. Thank you for no BG music. That would've ruined the video. I suggest to anyone reading comments to watch the video again with either good headphones or a stereo with a subwoofer. When Kermie opens the
left-hand canopy on approach the sound is an absolute EarGasm.👊
Voice over was cool to see what all the lever,s and gauges are for I also think that Merlin music is the best sounding engine ever
Imagine what those pilots in Europe were pushing these machines too in battle. They were probably cranking that stick left and right, diving straight down and going straight up while pinching the throttle. What a plane
This is awesome to think of this plane as an old race horse in the pasture now ,,,, relaxing in her late days ,,,, wow cool video. Thanks and what a beautiful dashboard
Yes! The voice-over was a great addition to this already very watchable video. Thanks!
Way better with the voice over. Thank you Kermit.
The Voice Over was a great addition. It helps you to understand what is happening, when it's happening and why. Yes, more of this when it's needed please.
You hit a home run buddy....... With this complete over view of cockpit instructions this was great .....
voice over makes this much better - would be nice to see it used on some of the WW1 birds too.
The Merlin was what really set the Mustang on fire. I've read ths Allison engine just didn't put out enough power to do the airframe justice.
Our local crop duster was a Mustang pilot in the ETO. Flew cover during D-Day.
Actually, I've read the Allison 1710 was a bit more powerful, it just chocked above 15000 ft. Some have surmised the supercharger from the Merlin could have been adapted to the 1710. Still, even in the turbo P38s, the Allison tended to fail at altitude due to oil flow in the engine &/or turbo in the extremely cold ETO skys. I prefer a P&W R2800 myself.
I could watch this stuff ALL Day !
The P-51 is the most beautiful airplane till this date. Greetings from Brazil.
VO makes the things very clear to those who are not familiar with all the P51's procedures. Thanks a lot!
What a beauty of a plane. My favorite!!
People riding on that highway get a priceless show for free :)
Voiceover is great. Beautiful Mustang.
Imagine 80 years ago strapping into that beautiful bird and taking off to rendezvous with B-17 bombers at 30 thousand feet to escort them behind German lines over Berlin knowing every time you shut the canopy on those birds you might not return home
Love the P51! Enjoyed hearing everything that you where thinking.
i guess I'm kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good place to stream new movies online?
@Gus Khari i watch on FlixZone. You can find it by googling :)
@Jakob Connor yea, have been using flixzone for months myself =)
@Jakob Connor thank you, signed up and it seems to work =) I really appreciate it!
@Gus Khari you are welcome =)
Voice over was wonderful.... With that Merlin engine, I felt movement! 💕
No one takes more effort than you Kermit to inform, educate and entertain your audience about your wonderful machines. The voice-over makes a BIG difference to your videos. Keep on inspiring.
Awesome aircraft and a superb pilot what could be better. Some day I will get a ride in a P51, thanks a bunch.
Absolutely wonderful video and the voice over adds a great layer.
I'll take as many as you can publish, thank you Mr Weeks
What a privilege it was to fly in your Mustang......thanks for the Video!
Flying that bird takes lots of attention to detail and being safe, safe...safe........Awesome.
The Rolex is way cool too!
There's no plane like American plane. Clear voice, lovely footage and excellent aeroplane with excellent piloting skills. Thanks
I love the P-51 and this video as well. The P-51 was my dads, Frank Thomas he would have been 88 this year, favorite plane. He was a great pilot and Kermit you remind me a lot of him. Thank you for doing this video.
What a difference six years makes. Loved the explanation. Now I am ready to graduate from my C172 to the P-51C!
Old school engineering at its best + a bunch of passion for those who loves to flight. Thanks !
As a former private pilot, I was able to fly in about 6 types of aircraft. None as complex as the P-51C, since I had no hydraulic systems, no radiator system (air-cooled), no fuel or oil boost pumps, etc. But I was always a stickler for a check-list and enjoyed your earlier Kermie-cam video going through the pre-flight walk-around and cockpit pre-flight. Always like to learn how it's done in other aircraft types. Thanks for the demonstration and keep them coming.
I loved the original video, your vo has made it even better. Thanks for taking the time to do it Kermit, and I look forward to hearing more.
Voice over was brilliant.
Thanks for taking the time to show us how it's done
Great voiceover Kermit, and also great POV for the original video. My only experience of a P-51 was the location and recovery of dash and propeller centre as well as sundry parts from a post WW2 crash site in the northern suburbs of Sydney Australia. The pilot bailed out over water when the engine started to fail, then the engine came good (partial dirty fuel?) and turned back to land and crashed into a hillside behind Narrabeen Lake. I conducted the search using post war and current airphotos, crash report and ground search.
I have over the years however travelled in, Caribou, C-130j Hercules, Beaver, Grumman Goose, Gypsy Moth, Air Truck, Tupolev copy of 727, DC-3, Catalina, Short Sunderland (Maybe even the one you have!), Bell 47, UH-1, 206/206LR, Squirrel, CH-47 Chinook, Spitfire trainer (2 seat variant owned by Roy Payne who had his collection at the airport at the end of our horse property road, which used to be the town airstrip before my father got together with others and built the airport. Also worked on recovery and restoration of a Vampire jet fighter
My father travelled to the USA via a Superfortress and said it was the worst airtrip of his life, on oxygen, couldn't smoke (Fuel leaks! Lol) heated flighsuit, peeing into a tube, thermos coffee and sandwiches which had to be eaten between putting his oxygen mask on and off. He preferred the pan am clippers he said! Lol.
I also enjoyed your walk throughs of the MARS and the base on Vancouver island. The setup for launch and dry land recovery of the aircraft was very similar to what was used for the Short Sunderland flying boats except their in water pulley went to a buoy where they had a final check before moving to either the dueling buoy or a mooring buoy on Rose Bay in Sydney. I went to primary school where the Sunderland's would take off over the top of the school before they changed their headings after climbing clear of the harbour area. One of the pilots was a friend of my parents and I spent many times visiting the base and seeing through the aircraft. When I went to high school our Boatshed was right next to the flying boat base so kept up my visits until the base closed down.
Here is a TH-cam clip of the base in the 70's, ah memories, you may even pick the tail number of your bird at the time. th-cam.com/video/GP72lLPDLjg/w-d-xo.html
Great flight with voiceover. Makes you realize the work by the pilot in combat, amazing.
"The FAA doesn't want you to go above 250Kts below 10,000', as a general rule... of course I would *never* do that..." 🤣
It's great to watch these POV KermieCam videos and see how they compare to how I fly the P-51 in DCS World (an excellent flight simulator, btw). Some day I'll need to get into a real one.
Or make more p-51d tutorials. ;) Thank you Robert.
Does the Simulator you mentioned afford machine gun bursts?
My great grandfather told me: “I can do whatever I want in Europe during WWII! Fk FAA!”
@@tkarlmann indeed
So cool to see everything from the inside!
I've always loved the P-51 Mustang but had no idea how complicated the routine was to get it off the ground, Great video, thanks!
Loving the voice over. Yes. Please do more. Really adds to the video. Thanks :-)
What a joy to watch.
That. Was. Awesome. What a fun aircraft!
The commentary makes it for me...nice to know what happening..Thanks
such an awesome plane. I hope to fly one. I also hope these WWII machines stay around for all of us in the future to appreciate. Loved it.
Thanks Kermit. That makes a lot more sense than the original where I was trying to guess what you were gesturing at.
Thanks Kermit for the voice over it really explains what you were doing in the cockpit of this wonderful aircraft as a retired navy aircraft structural mechanic I love watching all your videos!
Keep the voice over for future video's please. The extra info is the icing on the cake...
Dear Kermit,
I'm just a... simulator COUGH*COUGH with thousands of hours on both IL-2 Sturmovik and FSX (I still have to make the transition to P3D) and I find both a pleasure and a privilege to witness a real pro and a great pilot at the 'office'.
You make everything so easy and natural, and with the voice over you add clarity to your actions making your beautiful videos a treasure's trove of instructional information on your wonderful collection... KUDOS & THANKS!
Cheers
Man I really enjoyed the three videos. I've always said that if I had a plane to play with it would be a P 51. I guess since I'm 74 this is the closest I'll get to owning one in this life. Thanks for the ride.
Thanks Kermy, for your P-51C video's...... Now i can really fly them ........in my dream's ! Thank you a thousend time !!
Following all the previous comments, there is nothing I can add with respect to the voice over. What an OUTSTANDING video. Thank you.
It’s CRAZY that you can’t see what’s in front of you. This was GREAT, thank you so much for taking the time to do this, very much appreciated.
The voice over was a great idea , thank you Kermit. I really appreciate Kermits fight to make his acft as authentic as possible.
The voice over was fantastic. Highly informative.
Thank you, Kermit, for sharing your vast knowledge and beautiful airplanes! Love this POV and voice over!
Roger-that on the great sounding Merlin V12!! 😎
I do like the voiceover narration but just want to say that the P-51C is an amazing, historic and beautiful bird. As a kid I always considered them to be the hotrods of the sky!
Kermit, fantastic video! Love all your video's. One advice that i received from my instructor is to undo the parachute outside the cockpit. If you are used to undo your parachute in the cockpit the chance you do that during an emergency will be more likely! We dont want that to happen. Great you have the oppurtunity to fly all types of warbirds. Love it that you take the effort to share it with us. Greetings from the Netherlands
Every time I watch a Mustang video it reminds me of my flight on Crazy Horse with Lee Lauderback back in 1996. In fact we did one of those low level passes over your field ! Flying the Mustang with Lee was the most exhilarating experience of my life. Thanks for posting this, your P-51C is beautiful! Mustangs forever!!!!
Great video Kermit. Really like the voice over, and really appreciate the time you and your crew spend making all videos you put out. What you share is what most people would never get to see. Thanks again!
Agree....Nothing sounds as good as a Merlin..The edit was good too. Thanks For Sharing !!
Hello Kermit! Great meeting you today at Fantasy of Flight!
The voice over was worth it,lots of checks going on. Thanks
One of my dreams, flying a P-51 Mustang.
The V-O made a great video even better.
Hope to see more!
Thank you for your time Kermit!
Thank you for this! Glad you did not use music! That is one of most shiney birds I have ever seen. Beautiful.
love watching the first person view of starting, taking off and landing of aircraft, great voice over as well
I had the pleasure of a ride in CAC Mustang VH-MFT last year, those Merlins are unforgettable. Great video sir and thank you
Thanks for all you do To keep all these beautiful birds flying and taking us along for the tours and rides. The new voice over is great for us older hearing challenged.
Kermit, you just about tripled my enjoyment of that video from all the previous times I’ve seen it. It was always good and now it’s great!! Thank you so much! Even as a pilot, I learned so much more! 👍😎
Bravo. Thanks for brightening my Saturday morning. The audio on this one, describing everything you were doing made this flight perfect. Same with the previous video, with the preflight and setting up the engine and cockpit.
Awesome. Love the voiceover. Kermie and the Merlin.
Wow, amazing POV video of flying a P-51 !
Add me to the list of VO fans, really fun for those of us who aren't likely to ever have a chance to fly the mighty P-51 to follow you through the cockpit routines and layout and get an overview of the Mustang's systems and flight procedures. Very informative and interesting to have the inside story on what you're doing during the run-up, taxi, TO, climb, cruise, approach and landing. You have a calm instructor briefing manner Kermit. You sure keep that airplane buffed up and mighty clean.
Very nice. P51 my favorite plane.
What a beautiful kite that is!
Wow, Kermit! I like seeing the land below!
Great! Now I have a template for when I fly MY Mustang......... yeah right! Nice voiceover. Thanks.
Very enjoyable. It is amazing how complex flying a plane is.Hope I can come to FOF next year.
Great to have it explained with the voice over, will look forward to more of the same.
An excellent addition to your earlier video. Really added a lot to the enjoyment. Thanks for taking the time.
Great flight and was nice being able to hear what you saying. Thanks for your videos. Shalom
The VO's are excellent. It's pretty cool to get the pilot POV but the comprehensive play by play info is simply fantastic. From the step by step what you're looking at and why to the cause/effect elements like the flaps coming down or the hydraulics spiking when the gear sets - great content. Thanks for your time putting it out there!