WW2 Mosquito Fighter Bomber Flybys - Awesome Merlin Sound
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- Get four FREE full length documentaries from Historical Machines TV by logging in with your TH-cam account using the link below. This Video: There is nothing like the sound of twin V-12 Rolls Royce Merlin engines roaring past you at high speed. It's the sound of TWO Spitfires rolled into one (or half a Lancaster!).
This video of Jerry Yagen's de Havilland Mosquito rebuild (KA114) was filmed in New Zealand before the aircraft was shipped to its home base of Virginia Beach, USA.
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Any person who is not moved by the sheer beauty of those merlin engines is not human,!.....Absolute Poetry in Motion..!
So very true,the sound of freedom
The most beautiful aircraft ever made and the best noise
The best noise ever created.
The Brits created a flying work of art with the Mosquito
And its made of wood.
And the spitfire, obviously.
From a Brit... Yeah Dude we did... love this bird. n this vid. TFS, G :)
And the Spitfire. And the Lancaster. And the Vulcan.
@@tooyoungtobeold8756 Yes, even the engines are made of plywood.
nothing at all evokes so much joy as the sound of Merlins, it's primeval
It almost makes me puke. The sheer magnificence of this aircraft tightens every muscle in my body, the glory! Such a masterpiece it distorts my ability to function. The engine note from those Merlins makes me cry.
My grandfather repaired and serviced these beautiful creations throughout the war and I still carry the special tools he carried in his tool box in mine.
same, although nan had a habit of giving stuff away.
I thank your Grandfather for his Service and for helping to ensure I am here to write this. God Bless him and your Family. THANKS YOU.
@@Choober65 They were all part of a team, so essential for total success.
Nice family history my granddad built them at Hatfield
Spitfire, mosquito, Lancaster, P51 and more; all the same engine. Fantastic
Aaaahhhhhhh, the Wooden Wonder! The best twin-engine fighter bomber of WW2, bar none! Faster than anything the Germans could throw against it until the Me-262 came along. My grandad's next door neighbour flew these during the war and he swore he never wanted to fly anything else after flying the Mossie! What a delicious sound those twin Merlin engines make!
The throaty sound from those Merlins, nothing else like it. Just close your eyes and listen. That's history my friends. Beautiful aircraft.
The sound of those Merlins brings tears from heaven.
It sounds better than the noisy trucks that have a cooking pot size exhaust pipe.
what a beaut and she has everything. speed, sound, looks....... she's the full package and i envy anyone who has had the controls at there mercy haha
Greatest of the ww2 warbirds. Plane that saved Britain. Such a shame we don't have any flying here. Would so love to see one in the flesh. ❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
This design shows the genius of DeHavilland Aircraft and Rolls Royce engines. With all its different variants and uses, it has to be the best fighter/bomber of all time.
An amazing combination BUT, although many will be aware of the great struggle, that Geoffrey de Havilland had, with the RAF and Government, over it's unique design, and retro materials---HOW many, knew that the Government turned down Rolls Royce funding, for developing their fanatastic ''Merlin'' engine? Luckily, R R were able to dig into their own meagre resourses. IMAGINE--not just underpowered Merlins, but fewer of them ?? ---and no Mosquitos, with war only a few months away.
Probably the most outstanding muti purpose aircraft of WW2 . Used for reconaissance , bomber ; fiighter , pathfiner . Fast and difficult to shoot down
Its hard to imagine that lovely machine built almost entirely from wood !
To think that Hundreds of aircraft took off at once, with 1, 2 or 4 Merlins are enough for the shivers, I can't even begin to imagine a single mission for them.
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I knows cheesy to say this, but they really dont make them like that anymore. it was a work of art and a stroke of pure genius. a fast attacker/bomber that could carry a reasonable payload. that could out turn and out climb most of the planes germany and her allies possessed, made almost entirely from non essential materials and capable of being built by anyone. Canvas, Balsa Wood and Super Glue, backed up by machine guns, cannons and 2 Rolles Royce Merlins. seriously one of the most beautiful planes ever made.
Funny you say could be built by anyone wonder why they charge so much to build them now? Odd isn't it they have the molds
@@garypeatling7927 are you trying to be funny or are you really just stupid? in ww2, they had coach makers building them, they had piano makers building them, they had skilled and unskilled labourers making them up and down the country. the reason they would charge so much in this day and age to make one is that it required all man hours rather than making them with machines.
@@AnikaJarlsdottr loads of brilliant wood workers out their Philippines etc use old system get bits made abroad just use technicians to assemble especially with CG drawings
What a plane! The bomber could drop its payload and simply outrun interceptors. My great uncle flew one and received a Distinguished Flying Cross.
More bomb load than the famed B17
Incorrect.
Warwick Tregurtha No it isn’t, its just that the B17 could carry a variety of loads in weight.. but in weight alone the Mossi was superior.. and faster with only two crew..
Thank you, and this warbird was so much more than that, the first multi-role fighter, bomber and interceptor, beautiful.
Some people have all the luck!
The Merlin is the most beautiful sounding internal combustion engine. Hearing two together....
Marvellous aeroplane. What a fantastic restoration project.
My father in law piloted the MkVI. He wouldn't tell us any stories except one. Flying back to England over the channel, a smart ass American pilot came up aside him and on the radio said "Hey! Can you do this?" He then pulled off a barrel roll. Patrick my father in law said "No. But can you do this?" He cut off one engine. He said the American had no reply. He just buzzed off.
Hahaha no contra rotation makes life tricky though
Iies
@@Roger2465 no it isnt the Mossie was the most versatile twin engine plane of WW2 aT AN AIRPORT EARLY IN THE wAR THE tEST PILOT FLEW ONE THROUGH A HANGER
"Hey! Can you do this?"
That reminds me of a story my brother told me years ago, when he was a C-130 flight engineer in 40 Squadron, RNZAF. They were flying over the Coral Sea one day and learned that there was a US Navy Task Force in the vicinity when a F-14 showed up to look them over. The F-14 formated on their starboard wing tip, then did a huge barrel roll over the top of them, down underneath and back to where he started. Then he sat there looking at them, so they gave him the C-130 go-slow - gear down, flaps down, trundling along just above stalling speed. The F-14 tried to stay with them - gear down, wings extended, everything on the wings that could be extended hanging out, but he still stalled and fell away. He cleaned up, come back up to their level, waved, hit the afterburners and was gone in six seconds.
This little trip down memory lane is quite appropriate as my desktop photo today - the Mac chooses a new one each day - is one of 40 Squadron's C-130s doing a "wheelbarrow" at the Classic Fighters Omaka 2017 air show.
@@RodFleming-World Y'know, I've never heard anyone say the Mosquito would have been a great aircraft if only it had contra rotating props. Not once. RAF aircrew obviously coped just fine. Don't be a cheeky little troll.
simply goosebumps when I hear those mighty Merlins...
I get wood
@@MrDaiseymay don't get splinters!
@@andrewclarkehomeimprovement so--k I use my rose pruning gloves, I can stand Ard-more
Brits: And we’ll make it out of wood.
Germans:....Are they trolling us?
Ryan Hampson then the Germans tried making a similar design from wood & failed 😉
Ah...it is English humour..Ja?
Zen vee vill fire voodvorms at zem.
@@RogerRabbitt1337 It was near the end of the war, and like most of their brilliant new designs, it was too late, with far too much diversity, and far too few essential materials. Ad to the fact, that the skills required, to design and shape the necessary moldings , took far too much time to develop and apply.
@@RogerRabbitt1337 According to an episode of WINGS on the Discovery channel, the Germs had many problems with their glue on their wooden projects.
One of the Greatest fighter Bombers of WW2
ONE OF ? name another one.
I could listen to this ALL day.
Such a beautiful & deadly machine! A huge thank you to you guys in NZ for building her!! I can’t get enough of the looks & that sound!! Best aircraft of WW2 in my opinion. There wasn’t much the Mossie couldn’t do! So versatile. Such a brilliant design.
You've said it all Danny.
Geoffrey deHavilland created a masterpiece in his Mosquito design no one had thought of the wooden wonder but he did. But he wasnt the only one Hawker with the Hurricane, Typhoon and Sea Fury was another company who helped Britain win WW2. At least one of the Mossies that we have restored here in NZ should have gone to Duxford. Instead they live in the US. I think that we given the fact that our boys flew them in RAF squadrons during WW2 would like to own one. We have airshows but nothing like the ones in England. All who have commented have waxed lyrical about the astonishing versatility of the mossie, it could do anything asked of it. Best of all it brought its crew home. If we restore another one we should insert a clause, that being that it flys in Britain once again.
VERY WELL SAID
I was at the airshow in Ardmore when this aircraft had it's public unveiling, although I'd seen it fly over my house before that. If was a sight to behold, and the noise was something else. A truly awesome job done by the guys who restored/built it.
2:10 The view out through the one-piece windscreen triggered a memory and I did some looking-upping in my Mosquito book. One of the photos shows an armoured windscreen that had been removed from night fighter ace John Cunningham's Mosquito after he returned from a tangle with a Ju-188 in February 1944. The glass had been hit twice, clearly by cannon shells because no rifle-calibre bullets could have inflicted such damage. One shell had hit the bottom centre of the glass, while the other was right in line with Cunningham's head. Both shells were stopped by the armour glass.
Read Night fighter by John Cunninghams Radar/wireless operator CF Rawnsley....Beaufighter and Mosquito. A very good insight to sneaking about in the dark finding the Enemy..
@@brianperry Thanks. It sounds familiar. I'm pretty sure that I read the book as a teenager - a long time ago.
@@MarsFKA Yes! I believe it was written in the late fifties, I read it when I was on a ship in the sixties. On the subject of bullet prove windscreens. I remember seeing a panel taken from a B17 that had been hit by a 20 mm shell at the Imperil War museum in London...One hell of a generation
@@brianperry Can you remember which panel it was? About the only bullet proof glass I can think of in a B17 was the ball turret round window and the panel the gunner sighted through in the later model tail gun position.
@@MarsFKA Sorry, cant remember now, it was over fifty years ago. there were parts of the skin with Nose Art and other bits of equipement taken from fortress's :ie machine guns possible bombsight etc! don't recall the panel being round though, it was part of a general exhibit of this iconic aeroplane. Many years latter I saw one flying for the first time at Duxford
I grew up to the accompaniment of Merlins but it's a good few years (40 at least) since I heard a real Mossie and I've never heard a Mossie video this good. Awesome work, chaps.
As a 3 year old, during the War, my earliest memory, was hearing the Spitfires roaring over my head (out of sight) as I sat in my pushchair in the back garden. The Castle Bromwich Spitfire factory ( near Birmingham) was about 8 to 10 miles away. I'm guessing that many of those planes, were piloted by those BRAVE women of the great ATA group, on their way to RAF front line bases.
Awesome! My dad was a Navigator on these. Probably why I was born.
If there is a better sound than a Merlin on song, I have yet to hear it in almost 70 years.
Think this is the best sound any machine has ever made. Full stop. That Merlin on full song. 👌
'THE SOUND OF FREEDOM' FOR SOME, OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION FOR OTHER'S.
@@MrDaiseymay Yep, true. No winners in war, everyone loses something or someone.
Oh my god what a sound that can only come from the merlin engine
My two favourite twin-engined aircraft are both WW2 - the Mosquito and the P38 Lightning. Different in many ways but both iconic.
WITH THE SAME INTENT
The overrun sounds, all of it, magic!
A lot of fine aircraft in WWII but the Mossie in my opinion was the best 👌
Speaking as an engineer it was undoubtedly the best!
the best plane of WW2! & the cockpit view is amazing!
it had a outside balcony too, unmatched.
So wonderful. Awesome sound. The wooden Wonder! Thanks!
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER THAN YOU BOYS IN NEW ZEALAND.,, FANTASTIC. !! I SEE IT AS A LOVE AFFAIR, MAN AND MACHINE
love the pop as the throttles close on landing - what a fabulous machine, and nice to see it being put through it's paces, the Merlin sounds best when it is near full chat...
Imagine being there as the enemy and hearing some of these mosquitos approaching. It might as well be the apocalypse by the sound of it! You will know you are certainly in trouble...
It's the backfiring after landing that is like a loud belch after a few fine ales. Not really comparable but the satisfying sounds has the same semblance of pleasure. A fabulous symphony.
The Aero Commander made the same,closed throttle bark when landing at HB and East Coast Aero Club’s Bridge Pa strip.Great sound echoing off the pine trees.
When the original Mosquito prototype was tested in 1941.... It was the Fastest moving Object on the Planet.. The story has it that Spitfire Chase plane... Couldn't keep up...
That lean mixture burbling and popping is divine at the end.
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Beautiful, nothing sounds like a Merlin.
Sounds like an angel singing in your ears, what a beautiful sound
ANGEL OF DEATH, FOR MANY.
I lived in Texas for 16+ years. In 2004 I was on a golf course there when two F16s flew over at relatively low level. One of the Americans I was playing with said" hear that limey ! that's the sound of freedom"
I said " during the battle of Britain, outnumbered 3 to 1 by the Germans, the RAF had Spitfires and Hurricanes with Rolls Royce Merlin engines and they won that battle against all odds. The sound of those engines, in that adversity, was the sound of freedom"
He was not a happy chap !! :)
@Joe Parker Ah, but then you have the Avro Vulcan. She sounds lovely, especially when she howls.
@@andrewlaw YEP HOWLING WOLF. UNFORTUNATELY --IT'S NOW, HAD, A VULCAN. NO MORE HOWLING.
Gorgeous!... I seen this plane and I love the music of the Merlins🎶✈️
A rare combination of a real beauty to see and hear. Brings chills watching this.
633 Squadron brought me here. What a gorgeous aircraft.
My favourite aircraft of all time! Great footage, thank you!
Beautiful footage and a great sound .. my favourite ww2 British fighter bomber ..thanks for sharing
Brilliant video of a brilliant aircraft
The De Havilland Mosquito...designed and financed initially by the Legendary Geoffrey De Havilland. A uniquely British aircraft. The Mosquito performed as a Pathfinder for R.A.F. Bomber Command, in photo-Reconnaisance, low-level attack etc etc. However....the Mosquito's fame was achieved as nothing more than the finest aircraft a pilot could wish for.
if I was Piloting one, I'd be grabbing MY Wooden 'JOY-STICK' all the while.
God damnit, why do I always tear up at the sound of the Merlin.
Cos it's just sooo good! :-)
One of my favourite aircraft the mosquito beautiful aircraft and great sound .
Indeed it is!
I sent this short video to my children. The youngest is 38. It gave them goose bumps. Their grandfather, Patrick Maguire, late of Windsor Ontario, flew the Mosquito Mk 6. He chose not to tell stories of his time in the RAF. I didn't pry. He designed many high rises in the city, his favorite being the Victoria Park Place.
We have a few other Mosquito videos on our channel that they might like. Just do a search for 'Historical Aviation Film Unit' and 'Mosquito'.
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Great footage. Especially like the crackling when it's throttled back before touchdown.
two of the most beautiful aircraft of the period the mosquito and the spitfire. someone must have been ginned up when the lancaster was designed.
The Lancaster was designed in desperation. The 'Manchester' which was a twin engined long range bomber using the Rolls 'Vulture' engine failed due to engine problems.. The Lancaster came about by.making the main spar of the Manchester wide enough to fit four Merlins..
@@paulluce2557 nice one Paul. Besides, mass destruction was her game, not whizzing and diving about the skies.
@@MrDaiseymay More tonnage delivered than any of the other 'heavies' plus the ability to be modified for special weapons types.. 'Upkeep (Dambuster)' , 'Tallboy (5 ton) and 'Grandslam (10 ton)'.
I was there that day, and it was magical.
That Merlin sound got to be one of the all time greatest sounds bloody well done De Havilland catch this if you can Herman Georing. S C UK.
My grandad was a navigator in the Mossie, war service during WW2, 84 Squadron Royal Air Force.
So was my father, his pilot had an impromptu race with a P38 during WWII, I've got a B&W picture to prove it, his Recon Mosquito was both painted blue on top and bottom with no guns or bombs so he must have flown fast and low over the water most of the time. My grandmother told me she didn't know who that person was that came home from the war.
@@scottw550 great story, My half brother failed to come home, he was part of the last bombing raid on Germany, of the war. 3/5/1945. 5 days from the end.
@@MrDaiseymay Sorry to hear that Phil, bad memories, that's probably one of the reasons why my father didn't want to talk about it, he lived to 98, Charles Wagstaff 1919-1917.
Really a lot of info on U-tube, too bad he didn't use computers but read a lot of books.
Total respect and a Salute for your Grandfather. TFS, G :)
@@MrDaiseymay Respect and a SALUTE to our fallen Comrades from all theater's of war
Beautiful!! Great cockpit shots!
Glad you enjoyed it
Still my favorite aircraft ever! I used to go to many airshows and sadly, can't ever actually remember seeing one flying.... even though I'm now 51..... It, like the Spit, has that elusive property that it just 'looks right'. Graceful lines with nothing bulging or sticking out to spoil the shape. Combine that with the purr of 2 Merlins and you've got a legend right there. Anyone know if there is one currently being restored here in the UK that might fly again? Would love to know!!
see: www.peoplesmosquito.org.uk
The Mossie and the Spitfire r just fantastic to see and hear
Do more than that--DONATE TO THIS NOBLE CAUSE---I HAVE.
Brilliant. Loved the cockpit view.
Glad you enjoyed it
Simply the best aircraft ever.
Fantastic piece of video of a fantastic aeroplane!!
Many thanks. 👍🏻
Many thanks!
The best aircraft ever built. She was faster than any piston engine fighter the Germans had, at the end of WW2
Sure about that ...?
This is the very best footage of this Mosquito I have seen, I suppose that as it has now been lost to America this will also be the last good video we will see of it, Many thanks for posting this !
Englishman French I didn't know there was one in UK flightworthy I assumed there was a Canadian built one in USA or Canada
Mark Mitchell: Is that you H&H Mark ? No there is not airworthy Mosquito in UK since the crash in July 1996, I believe there are others under rebuild, but nothing has surfaced yet in UK.
The Peoples Mosquito are currently raising funds to build and fly one in the UK...
The wings are built .. the fuselage is next...
It's going to happen..
Mike Wilkins: Very many thanks for that info, that is hopeful ,then one day we will see a Mosquito flying again in UK,( or you will I live in France now).
@@wilkowilkins363 it must happen
OMG that first full-blooded pass from 00.17 - standing on the wingtip. Incredible!
don
tt blaspheme by saying 'O My God' it's a stupid hollywood phrase that you and all those other numpties out there that use it should take a rain check on their use of the English language.
@@eddiepattisonhogg9917 Thanks mate. I clearly needed a good serve. Thank G... um... Thankfully you are here to keep me up to the mark.
Imagine this beast thundering along at zero feet cannons blazing !!!! Simply amazing British ingenuity and aeronautical genius epic
Heh, every time it made a diving pass I made that firing noise in my head... :P
ZERO FEET ?
@@MrDaiseymay not exactly obviously metaphorically
Oh what a beautiful noise!
WHAT ??? MUSIC SIR--MUSIC !
@@MrDaiseymay that too, that too 🤭
Bloody beautiful!
Magnificent!
What a beautiful perfect semetrical aircraft, beauty personified.
Old Geoffrey had an eye didnt he ?
Turn up the volume it is spine tingly awesome
It's great, isn't it! :-)
its music to my ears!!!!!!!
what a perfect looking airplane👍👍👍
How much FCUKing fun did you guys have flying this BEAUT
We used to get an air show over the Brooklands site of the Vickers factory Surrey England back in the 90s saw the most stunning display from a Mosquito over my house this plane could really cut it you don’t see those displays now because of the accidents but wow believe me it turns on a six pence
The Timber Terror :) Love it.
YEAH--Not the only 'Wood' around here, I got enough for a fuselage.
@@MrDaiseymay heheh if Dehavilland could do it in the 40s, you can do it now :) long live the balsa bomber!
good one.
I must say, that this particular (first ?) restoration, not only looks the best, but sounds by far, the very best . Mind you, the Kiwi boys like pushing her to the limits. Whereas, in their new US homes, they are flown a bit more sedately.
There a lot to be said for Kiwi warbirds pilots and airshows in general -- people in this country don't really realise how lucky we are to see some of these displays, in the way that they're performed, and as close as they sometimes are. Still good and safe, just not over-the-top PC and H&S conscious.
@@HistAvFilmUnit EXCELLENT---WELL SAID, KEEP IT UP. ONE CRITIC SAID , THE US AIRSHOWS ARE MORE LIKE A PARADE OF AIRCRAFT , CROSSING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, AND BACK AGAIN. NOTHING EXCITING WHILE IN THE AIR, FOR REASONS YOU HAVE GIVEN.
@@HistAvFilmUnit YOOOO LUCKY BBBBOYS.
@@HistAvFilmUnit PRECISELY !
Shivers and goosebumps!
wow, great video
I was watching this at work so I had the volume turned down... I had to make my own Merlin sounds
Looks like the Mosquito could have been an effective close ground support. Quick turning and heavily armed.
The sound of victory 😊👍
The Wooden Wonder - the ULTIMATE Boy Toy!
best allied bomber of ww2 :D by a large margin.
The best fighter bomber of WWII, 4 .303 and 4 20mm cannons in its nose 👍
Bigger bomb load than the B17, faster, cheaper, smaller crew.
No it hadn't.
@@PenzancePete GO ON THEN , EXPLAIN.
@@MrDaiseymay Yep, no problem. The original bomb load of the Mosquito was 2,000lb - usually four 500lb bombs with "cropped" fins. A later modification saw a bulged bomb bay to enable a single 4,000lb area blast bomb to be carried. The bomb load of a B-17 in the European theatre varied between 4 and 6,000 lb depending on the mission. This being a combination of various sized bombs. The "B" Mosquito's maximum speed was of course some 100 mph faster.
Your move.
Fantastic !!
Love the ‘snap crackle pop’ at the end
It's a great sound!
Fucking hell 😨, that sound.
What’s better then 1 Merlin… 2 Merlins!
The greatest plane of WW2 keep your spitfires, Lancaster’s etc this plane did everything, bomber, fighter, pathfinder, ground attack, missile attacks, reconnaissance the list is endless. You tell me what other plane these days can do it all???
You're right but we were lucky to have the Spitfires, Hurricanes and the Lancaster bombers to, they all did their jobs admirably ...... although it would have been good to see the Spitfires and Hurricanes have more range but I there will always be things that we could have done better. Nevertheless, the world would have be a very different place had it not been for all of these wonderful aircraft.
@@jonh9561 Horses for courses. the important point was, to have a plane to suit all situations, and we really did. Production of the Mosquito was relatively slow, and the skills limited in number's. In short, we couldn't make enough, but thanks to Canada, and US engines made by Packard, the number's were boosted
SWEET music!
You can keep your Spitfires. Mosquito - best plane ever!
They both had different jobs to do.' Horses for Courses '
utterly awesome
Bucket list! To fly in one of those!
The Mosquito, basically 2 Spitfires bolted together and made of plywood.