This video features Historic Flight Foundation's B-25D Mitchell "Grumpy" and some sunset takeoffs and a couple of my favorite flybys from over the years.
My Dad flew the B-25 in WWII and he said they called the engines "snap, crackle and pop". On cold start idle you can clearly hear the sound he described to me.
Those engines were grumpy on start up. They didn't want to get out of bed. Cool smoke ring on #2 engine start up.Once going, a real nice aircraft. B-25s always sound great. Look great too. Thanks for not adding music.
That marvel of engineering beauty played a significant part of why we are still a free people today. Those that live among us that have no respect or appreciation for our past true history,have taken up the position of the enemies America defeated in the war that birthed this beautiful bird.
The stories he could have told. Some came home and didn't want to talk about it, completely understandable. Some were terrorized by it and needed help coping with it for a while, to the rest of their life. For some, it was the time of their life. They had a job to do, and did it to the best of their ability. They loved the comradarie, and the adrenaline and adventure of it and found a way to put their feelings and emotions of what they had to do in their place. My respect for them is immeasurable.
Love the "lopey" idle of those cam rings in those big radials! Imagine sixteen of these taking off from the flight deck of the USS Hornet in April 1942 - led by Doolittle - on their way to bomb Tokyo! That must have been a sight to behold!
Very well done cinematography! High quality but still retains a natural "being there" feel. However, what stands out most is the amazing audio quality! You can really hear the engines on those low passes! 💯
A mid wing aircraft and every time I see that configuration I think of the DE Havilland aircraft I flew in from Ontario CA to Sacramento. with mid wing and four engines. The stewardess had to climb over the main spar that divided coach from first class. Maybe 1989?
What a beautiful airplane...and the sound is incredible. I had the privilege of flying on the B-25, "Berlin Express". If you love the sound from this video, I highly recommend hearing it and feeling it from the inside if you ever have the opportunity. I felt the rush for a week.
It's been restored, but it is an old restoration, and the plane is an active flyer, so it sustains damage from debris on the runway and in the air here and there. Also sits outside off and on and gets weathered.
My uncle Earl Laird got to hear a whole bomb group, or whatever part of it they were sending out on a particular raid or mission on a given day. He was an armorer/bomb loader with the 488th bomb squadron 340th bomb group 57th bomb wing 12th Army Air Force in Africa, Corsica and Italy from 42-45. He went on a few missions as a waist gunner, even though this was a court martial offense. The officers on these planes understood the desire of some ground crew to get into the action when they could get away with it. And yes Earl knew Joe Heller the bombardier that wrote Catch 22, they were in the same squadron after all.
Beautiful airplane, and would really go! It was always an amazement to watch these birds as a kid, you just stop your bike and man I wish I could do that!
I am pretty sure that was Grumpy that passed over my area of Southern Ontario a few years ago, heading due west over Lake Huron towards Michigan . Unless there are other B25'S with D day markings
Not only are there 2 B-25's with D-Day markings, there's 2 B-25's with Grumpy markings. Canadian Warplane Heritage has a B-25J that used to have the same markings. Now it appears they changed the squadron markings and nose art to represent a different plane from the same unit, VO-F. They are based in Mount Hope, ON.
One sees archival footage of starting of the various radial engines. It was hop in, push the starter, set the surfaces, then fly. What has changed over the intervening 70+ years?
Urgency and rarity. Being shot at or your friends being shot at plays a tremendous role in urgency. At that time planes were easier to replace than repair. We don't have a thousand spare engines ready to hang if the current one has problems, so we have to be much more careful with our engines and equipment. Also... we have to wait for ATC and traffic to clear. Often times on a non-busy day when theyre not doing formation flights with other aircraft these planes will be started and airborne in just a few minutes.
And under the plane they had bombs to which they attached dog tags with the names of their deceased written on them. It was partly anger and sadness that drove her to do this action.
The American Air Force completely slimmed down the Boeing in order to be able to start with it on the aircraft carrier. A lot of important things were dismantled, such as the armored glazing, the additional petrol canisters left outside. And the MG's were also dismantled and replaced by broomsticks. The fairing and the corresponding armored metal plates were also dismantled, one wanted to avoid that one of the planes would not take off from the aircraft carrier in time due to the excessive weight, and thus the certain loss would follow.
@@dougcastleman9518 Excuse me, I only know some of the details from the movie Pearl Harbor, and especially about the scene where the American Air Force launches its counterattack against Japan. After Japan, as it were, surprised the Americans in their sleep in Pearl Harbor in the harbor. In retaliation because the Americans had blocked an important oil pipeline.
'Grumpy' is the nickname given to that one individual aircraft, by it's crew. It comes from the nose art painted on the side nose of the aircraft. The B-25 series of aircraft were normally named 'Mitchell', by the British Royal Air Force, in honor of US Army Air Forces General Billy Mitchell.
Awesome video but that marshaller is cringe worthy..... Never run, skip, hop, cha-cha, or tango backwards while guiding these planes. One slip and Grumpy eats you alive before she can stop.
I read an article years ago where a former Liberator pilot said that they could always tell a B-25 pilot ( sitting at a bar on R&R ) because they were all deaf ! HA ! My favorite American aircraft of WWII, regardless of the type.
The Doolittle b25 tokyo raid was America's and Americans first chance to show the world what americans do to their enemy people and nations. Exemplary, legendary, miraculous, . . .! A fit response to 120741.
Terrific video! A beautiful bird with a beautiful sound. Great to see them maintained and still flying. P.S. Nice catch of a Boeing 747 Dreamlifter at 8:26.
The Flight of the Phoenix is one of my favorite films of all time. I first saw it on the big screen in 1966 and now more than fifty year later I'm still impressed. Too bad about Paul Mantz though....
@@64MDW I will always maintain that the DH 98 could do ALL the tasks and much more than the slow lumbering rattle box B 25 or the slightly more agile P 38 Lightening. It was merely the fact that America was sooo fkn jealous of the Mosquito and wanted to screw the UK with semi worthless lend lease junk like the B 25 and P 38 whilst turning down the obvious advantages of building the Mossie in the USA in favour of their over OVER EXPENSIVE AND OVER RATED AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY
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My Dad flew the B-25 in WWII and he said they called the engines "snap, crackle and pop". On cold start idle you can clearly hear the sound he described to me.
look at the smoke rings on startup 😂😂
@@2fr56 I saw that!
Those engines were grumpy on start up. They didn't want to get out of bed. Cool smoke ring on #2 engine start up.Once going, a real nice aircraft. B-25s always sound great. Look great too. Thanks for not adding music.
Billy Mitchell would have been proud of this fine old bird .
Amazing ! 16 B-25 s taking off from the Hornet . Brave men for sure. America's best. No catapult.
That marvel of engineering beauty played a significant part of why we are still a free people today. Those that live among us that have no respect or appreciation for our past true history,have taken up the position of the enemies America defeated in the war that birthed this beautiful bird.
I live in Colorado Springs. I often hear WW2 planes flying over. I love hearing the B25s.
My great grandpa was the bombardier of “grumpy”
The stories he could have told. Some came home and didn't want to talk about it, completely understandable. Some were terrorized by it and needed help coping with it for a while, to the rest of their life. For some, it was the time of their life. They had a job to do, and did it to the best of their ability. They loved the comradarie, and the adrenaline and adventure of it and found a way to put their feelings and emotions of what they had to do in their place. My respect for them is immeasurable.
Grumpy never served operationally. Used as a trainer with the Americans then a b24 trainer for the Canadians. .
Wonderful to see these amazing birds fly after all these years!
Love the "lopey" idle of those cam rings in those big radials! Imagine sixteen of these taking off from the flight deck of the USS Hornet in April 1942 - led by Doolittle - on their way to bomb Tokyo! That must have been a sight to behold!
The B-25 was my father’s favorite airplane to fly during WWII.
You had me at the engine #1 start. ❤
It’s just absolutely beautiful !
Very well done cinematography! High quality but still retains a natural "being there" feel. However, what stands out most is the amazing audio quality! You can really hear the engines on those low passes! 💯
Amazing,I can hardly believe what I've just watched!!!!!
A mid wing aircraft and every time I see that configuration I think of the DE Havilland aircraft I flew in from Ontario CA to Sacramento. with mid wing and four engines. The stewardess had to climb over the main spar that divided coach from first class. Maybe 1989?
What a beautiful airplane...and the sound is incredible. I had the privilege of flying on the B-25, "Berlin Express". If you love the sound from this video, I highly recommend hearing it and feeling it from the inside if you ever have the opportunity. I felt the rush for a week.
3:10 amazing smoke ring!
As much as I LOVE big radials, it is amazing how crude they are in this age of powerful electric motors and jet turbines.
oisiaa Yeah but the electric motors and the turbines just don't have any soul like the radials do at least IMO.
I love the patina on this B-25 Warbird. Looks old and authentic. Not over polished and pristine.
I agree! 😉That's how they SHOULD look! They're not hangar queens.
It's been restored, but it is an old restoration, and the plane is an active flyer, so it sustains damage from debris on the runway and in the air here and there. Also sits outside off and on and gets weathered.
My uncle Earl Laird got to hear a whole bomb group, or whatever part of it they were sending out on a particular raid or mission on a given day. He was an armorer/bomb loader with the 488th bomb squadron 340th bomb group 57th bomb wing 12th Army Air Force in Africa, Corsica and Italy from 42-45. He went on a few missions as a waist gunner, even though this was a court martial offense. The officers on these planes understood the desire of some ground crew to get into the action when they could get away with it. And yes Earl knew Joe Heller the bombardier that wrote Catch 22, they were in the same squadron after all.
Loved the smoke ring!
Mitchell to zdecydowanie najładniejszy bombowiec II wojny ! Piękna sylwetka !!
Fantastic footage 👏
Beautiful airplane, and would really go! It was always an amazement to watch these birds as a kid, you just stop your bike and man I wish I could do that!
My dad too. Mostly Philippines, bombardier, navigator. Badass aircraft !
Great restoration!
I enjoy how you here one piston at a time come to life
Beautiful planes the B-25
What a sound
Escutar essa dificuldade em dar a partida nos motores é bom demais.
3:14 that smoke ring on the left side.
Amazing
I am pretty sure that was Grumpy that passed over my area of Southern Ontario a few years ago, heading due west over Lake Huron towards Michigan . Unless there are other B25'S with D day markings
Not only are there 2 B-25's with D-Day markings, there's 2 B-25's with Grumpy markings. Canadian Warplane Heritage has a B-25J that used to have the same markings. Now it appears they changed the squadron markings and nose art to represent a different plane from the same unit, VO-F. They are based in Mount Hope, ON.
@@fight2flyphoto Thank you for the come back. As I stated I wasn't sure
Until i saw one of these in August u never knew ww2 props were that loud
I like how its an american plane and has the RAF BBMF livery. A friend of mine told me before there is one in the USA
My dad use to fly this when it was over in UK at duxford
Excellent
Conocí los Mitchell en la base de Quintero . Viña del Mar .Chile. . Aviones leales
HEE
Nothing sounds like a radial.
My dad also flew B-25 and P - 47
One sees archival footage of starting of the various radial engines. It was hop in, push the starter, set the surfaces, then fly. What has changed over the intervening 70+ years?
Urgency and rarity. Being shot at or your friends being shot at plays a tremendous role in urgency. At that time planes were easier to replace than repair. We don't have a thousand spare engines ready to hang if the current one has problems, so we have to be much more careful with our engines and equipment.
Also... we have to wait for ATC and traffic to clear. Often times on a non-busy day when theyre not doing formation flights with other aircraft these planes will be started and airborne in just a few minutes.
Shes a beautiful machine.
And under the plane they had bombs to which they attached dog tags with the names of their deceased written on them. It was partly anger and sadness that drove her to do this action.
That Port side engine start-up was a little rough. Even on the rollout on the takeoff, it sounded rough.
Second start-up engine was vaping, did you see that vape cloud lol
The American Air Force completely slimmed down the Boeing in order to be able to start with it on the aircraft carrier. A lot of important things were dismantled, such as the armored glazing, the additional petrol canisters left outside. And the MG's were also dismantled and replaced by broomsticks. The fairing and the corresponding armored metal plates were also dismantled, one wanted to avoid that one of the planes would not take off from the aircraft carrier in time due to the excessive weight, and thus the certain loss would follow.
North American, not Boeing. They used broomsticks in the tail, the rest were real machines guns…for the raid you speak of.
@@dougcastleman9518 Excuse me, I only know some of the details from the movie Pearl Harbor, and especially about the scene where the American Air Force launches its counterattack against Japan. After Japan, as it were, surprised the Americans in their sleep in Pearl Harbor in the harbor. In retaliation because the Americans had blocked an important oil pipeline.
That ring
3:15. Smoke ring from engine #2
Image is B27 flying fortress
Imagine taking off from an aircraft carrier as in the Dolittle raid on Japan
Around 3:16 if look to the left you can see a smoke ring
Wait the B-25 Mitchell is called Grumpy?
'Grumpy' is the nickname given to that one individual aircraft, by it's crew. It comes from the nose art painted on the side nose of the aircraft.
The B-25 series of aircraft were normally named 'Mitchell', by the British Royal Air Force, in honor of US Army Air Forces General Billy Mitchell.
日本の爆撃機もだいたいがB25に近い感じだね。ただ、前輪式はB17を模した連山くらいだけど。
This is one of the Planes where the American Army flow the attak to Japan after they had made a Attak to Pearl Harbor. They had Bombs under the Plane.
colonel doolittle🇺🇸
Definition of the Made in USA...
プロペラ、向かってどちらも左回り。
普通トルクを消すため反対に回すと思ってた。
Sounds like a super stock Roadrunner 440 with open headers...Cool !!!
Bombardeo medio , usado para bombardear Tokio .
Красавец которій помог ссср .
при взлете главное Не пострадать
Awesome video but that marshaller is cringe worthy..... Never run, skip, hop, cha-cha, or tango backwards while guiding these planes. One slip and Grumpy eats you alive before she can stop.
Sounds crap, clearly misfiring
Ancak kendinizi kandirirsiniz tanriyi degil
B25 is one of my favorite aircraft, can't beat that early 40s radial sound.
So true! At 4:00, it sounds like a Hot Rod... awesome aircraft.
I read an article years ago where a former Liberator pilot said that they could always tell a B-25 pilot ( sitting at a bar on R&R ) because they were all deaf ! HA ! My favorite American aircraft of WWII, regardless of the type.
Man, I'd believe it, with those engines cranking right next to them. I've been in two of them, and I think my ears are still ringing.
How many of us watching this were willing those radials to kick into life knowing anyway that they would ?
Nice couple of smoke rings when #2 started up in the beginning! Thanks for sharing!
The Doolittle b25 tokyo raid was America's and Americans first chance to show the world what americans do to their enemy people and nations. Exemplary, legendary, miraculous, . . .! A fit response to 120741.
There is nothing--absolutely nothing like a radial. Getting one running is an art, but once its warmed up it just goes on and on........
THAT`s the "sound of FREEDOM" !
Love the sound of those radial engines! Thanks for posting your excellent video!
Love those ol' war birds! :-) Keep 'em flying!
David A.P. the more the merrier
Gotta love Grumpy!! Great video!!
Fantastic video, I'm no plane spotter but love the sound of radial 😎
Amazing audio! Thanks
Terrific video! A beautiful bird with a beautiful sound. Great to see them maintained and still flying.
P.S. Nice catch of a Boeing 747 Dreamlifter at 8:26.
Love that sound!
Wonderful video ! Thanks for posting ! Great that it has no music! Regards from Alaska!
Starting engine 1 was a bit like the original flight of the pheonix with James Stewart! LOL
The Flight of the Phoenix is one of my favorite films of all time. I first saw it on the big screen in 1966 and now more than fifty year later I'm still impressed. Too bad about Paul Mantz though....
Actuó en todos los frentes. De batalla con gran éxito para la causa aliada .
jimmy doolittle
AWESOME AIRPLANE
Starting No.1 was rather like getting a row of schoolboys out of bed in the morning!
The bird was saying "One minute more, please" when they was waking him up. Hahaha well said. I thought the same thing.
Nice old Lady ! :-)
Alright fellas let's go knock their clocks off
oughta hear the 4360 on the KC97. Wake ur butt right up
roy burnham Oooohhhh, man, I'd love to hear that!
Oh BOI
the 1850 's got a little chug to em huh
Not 1850's , they're Wright R-2600's
Not a patch on the De Havilland Mosquito!!!
Gary Tarr Not familiar with that phrase.
Two different aircraft with two different missions.
@@64MDW I will always maintain that the DH 98 could do ALL the tasks and much more than the slow lumbering rattle box B 25 or the slightly more agile P 38 Lightening. It was merely the fact that America was sooo fkn jealous of the Mosquito and wanted to screw the UK with semi worthless lend lease junk like the B 25 and P 38 whilst turning down the obvious advantages of building the Mossie in the USA in favour of their over OVER EXPENSIVE AND OVER RATED AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY
YVR ?
Looks like KPAE to me.
@@igclapp yep!
미첼.....너를 타고 날고 싶다.