P-38 Lightning start-up, taxi, takeoff, and fly-by. Airport Day 2024, Santa Ynez 'Kunkle Field', CA

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  • @wythetrumpet6419
    @wythetrumpet6419 9 днів тому +4

    My late Father was in the Army Air Corps in WWII he was a trained aircraft mechanic and the P-38 Lightning was his favorite aircraft. Thank you for the great video! 🇺🇸👍

  • @tripacer8259
    @tripacer8259 25 днів тому +21

    Great video and NO MUSIC!! Thanks for posting....

  • @CaoimhinOMaol
    @CaoimhinOMaol 21 день тому +9

    “Oh wow, wow, wow, wow…..wow!”
    “That fly-past was TIGHT!”

  • @keith7046
    @keith7046 23 дні тому +11

    Short and to the point. PERFECT.

  • @boomer7485
    @boomer7485 17 днів тому +6

    The last thing Yamamoto saw.

  • @luke_skywanker7643
    @luke_skywanker7643 17 днів тому +4

    I love watching videos of the P-38 and my other favorite, the P-51 Mustang. I've always wondered what would have happened if they'd have continued with that P-38 design and replaced the piston engines with jet engines. It would have probably been something like my other favorite -- the A010 Warthog. Thanks for posting this, man. And even bigger thanks for keeping the original sound and not replacing it with some kind of crappy loud music.

  • @brianmoore1164
    @brianmoore1164 18 днів тому +3

    Love it when propeller speed and shutter speed make it look like the plane is flying without the engines running!

  • @stevesp38
    @stevesp38 Місяць тому +15

    The P-38 and the F-15 Eagle are the two most beautiful airplanes ever built.

    • @gadeane287
      @gadeane287 25 днів тому +1

      DeHavilland Mosquito deserves a nod.

    • @mickywanderer8276
      @mickywanderer8276 21 день тому

      @@gadeane287 As does the DeHavilland Hornet. Pity that plane, and the F7F Tigercat, didn't appear in time for the war.

    • @midnightwriter9658
      @midnightwriter9658 13 днів тому

      The ME 262 for my money ...

    • @stevesp38
      @stevesp38 13 днів тому

      Hey gadeane287, micky, and midnight. I do not disagree with any of those airplane choices. Almost everything from WWII is a beautiful airplane. It's just that I got to sit in a P-38 at Duxford back in 1994, which IS one of my 2 favorite airplanes along with the F-15 which I was a mechanic on in the U.S. Air Force for 12 of my 21 years of service. I also was a mechanic on U-2's at RAF Alconbury. I think the Mosquito and the Hornet are gorgeous airplanes. And, Midnight, I think all of the German airplanes of WWII are also beautiful. I love the 262, the 190, 109, etc. No disrespect was intended. Just my personal experience opinion on the P-38 and F-15.

    • @michaelmurray7199
      @michaelmurray7199 12 днів тому

      They’re also my 2 personal favorites.

  • @brucesheehe6305
    @brucesheehe6305 25 днів тому +13

    Two turbosupercharged Allison engines with counter rotating props. The Curtis P-40 had the great Allison engine, but it was not turbosupercharged. Kelly Johnson mastermind.

    • @casparberends2719
      @casparberends2719 25 днів тому +1

      Not all versions had counterrotating props, and not all versions had turbosuperchargers.

    • @williambarry8015
      @williambarry8015 24 дні тому +2

      UA-camr Stapleton42 interviews a guy in the seattle area thts been rebuilding Allisons and Merlins for powerboats for 50 years and he feels the allison is a better engine.

    • @thecowboy2523
      @thecowboy2523 19 днів тому

      This is a P-38. The P-40 is a single engine fighter

  • @dgreen3298
    @dgreen3298 Місяць тому +8

    Wow! Music to the ears!

  • @craigpennington1251
    @craigpennington1251 23 дні тому +11

    The 38 is really a quiet aircraft compared with most. My #2 favorite. Thanks for posting without music.

    • @tedkoester814
      @tedkoester814 17 днів тому +1

      Agreed. Caught one at an airshow god knows how long ago - p47, bearcat, Texan a6 Zero replica(tora tora tora), all bellering to beat hell, p38 goes zipping by, almost silent by comparison

  • @georgegeyer3431
    @georgegeyer3431 Місяць тому +11

    The Fork Tail Devil.

  • @s10motox
    @s10motox Місяць тому +7

    That thing is dope!

  • @covertops19Z
    @covertops19Z 22 дні тому +6

    The Admiral Yamamoto death machine..

  • @MrEricmopar
    @MrEricmopar Місяць тому +11

    I know that technically modern engines like turbo props are more efficient, but those old warbirds sound so delicious LOL

  • @bleustalder8717
    @bleustalder8717 17 днів тому +1

    Besides the one Howard crashed that’s pretty much the baddest twin piston in the skies. The two remaining Howard 500’s are pretty freaking amazing too!

  • @LarsDcCase
    @LarsDcCase 22 дні тому +4

    This is orgasmic, seeing and hearing these war birds fire up and fly. 😀

  • @PlaidRicky1611
    @PlaidRicky1611 14 днів тому +1

    Great sound, but without the right prop blur these vids are hard to watch sometimes.

    • @mudkow5092
      @mudkow5092  12 днів тому

      Vertical shutters on phones.

  • @tonyczuleger4591
    @tonyczuleger4591 Місяць тому +3

    Where is the P38 home airport? Torrance airport was a P38 base back in the day. I have never been aware of a P 38 visiting Torrance over the 65 years I have lived in the South Bay. I wonder if we will ever see one come to Torrance in the future.

    • @richs7362
      @richs7362 Місяць тому +4

      Chino, Planes Of Fame museum

    • @adamadkins9210
      @adamadkins9210 Місяць тому +1

      When I was growing up in Torrance in the 1970s there was a P-51 that often flew out of that airport. I wonder if it's still there?

    • @tonyczuleger4591
      @tonyczuleger4591 Місяць тому +2

      @@adamadkins9210 Yes the P-51 you are talking about was likely the one and only Bob Hoover. Bob also had a shrike commander. The P-51 was Yellow in color with Rockwell logos on the wings. When he came back from a weekend air show, Bob would come in hot from the north heading south and circle his home pulling back on the power then power up over his Palos Verdes home to let the family know he was back in town. our family lived in South Torrance at the beach and frequently would catch the arrival as well. No cell phones at the time. . Bobs plain is now in the Smithsonian.

    • @adamadkins9210
      @adamadkins9210 7 днів тому +1

      @@tonyczuleger4591 Thanks so much for your reply! Very nice to know something about the plane that was making all of the very "stout" noises climbing out of Torrance airport while I was was walking the dog. We lived in the apartments on 235th Street where the Little League fields used to be.

  • @deruberschwarze3943
    @deruberschwarze3943 19 днів тому +3

    Whispering Death.

    • @Loulovesspeed
      @Loulovesspeed 18 днів тому

      I think you are confusing the P-38 with the British made Bristol Beaufighter That plane was nicknamed "Whispering Death" as its engines were so quiet.

    • @deruberschwarze3943
      @deruberschwarze3943 18 днів тому

      @@Loulovesspeed The Japanese and I are not confused. Look it up.

    • @Loulovesspeed
      @Loulovesspeed 18 днів тому

      @@deruberschwarze3943 - No confusion here, I knew the correct names but looked them up anyway. The P-38 nickname was German - Der Gabelshwanz Teufel - which translates to The Fork-Tailed Devil. The Whispering Death moniker belonged SOLELY to the Bristol Beaufighter. The F4u Corsair was called whistling death because the wing root air inlets for the engines made a high pitch whistling sound in a dive! Suggest you go back and research some more because I am 100% positive that I am correct!

    • @deruberschwarze3943
      @deruberschwarze3943 18 днів тому

      @@Loulovesspeed I stand corrected.

    • @Loulovesspeed
      @Loulovesspeed 18 днів тому

      @@deruberschwarze3943 - Thank you for being respectful with your reply! I have found there are some positive aspects of getting older and I enjoy them more every year! I'm 75 and my true love is sports car racing and its history, But WWII fighter aircraft are a solid second! I knew and met several times at Lime Rock Park road racing course, a gentleman named John Fitch, who was a well known road racing driver in the post war era. In WWII, he flew P-51 Mustangs over German held areas and also performed pilot training for the Army Air Corps. John was one of the first Americans to shoot down an ME-262 jet as it was taking off! He later on was strafing a German supply train and made an "ill advised 3rd pass" on it and was shot down. He spent the last few months of the war in a POW Camp. Ironically, he became the only American driver to be placed on the Mercedes Benz Factory Race Team in the early 1950s! All the best to you sir!

  • @vrosi1963
    @vrosi1963 Місяць тому +1

    pof P38 came out just for this small event ?

    • @mudkow5092
      @mudkow5092  Місяць тому

      There's a connection to Kunkle Field, so yes.

  • @jmseipp
    @jmseipp 24 дні тому +1

    The props aren’t turning.

    • @ronaldtreitner1460
      @ronaldtreitner1460 23 дні тому +1

      i think its a camera effect with frame rate or something

  • @garyyoung4074
    @garyyoung4074 Місяць тому +5

    A season 2 episode of Black Sheep Squadron features 2 P-38's along with the usual 6 F-4U's. Those poor modified T-6's trying to be Zeros must have had a tough time! You see the F-4U's with flaps down in many dogfight scenes trying to fly slow enough.