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  • @therealjimmysworld
    @therealjimmysworld  7 місяців тому +23

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    • @FunWithCars716
      @FunWithCars716 7 місяців тому +1

      Is there a"fakeJimmy'sWorld" ?

    • @chriscook4782
      @chriscook4782 7 місяців тому +2

      I have to say I'm always ready for your videos it really makes my day so cool the stuff you get to do keep up the great work

    • @pierrearchambeault6409
      @pierrearchambeault6409 7 місяців тому +2

      Was there when that plane was pulled from lake Michigan.

    • @ousley421
      @ousley421 7 місяців тому +1

      Will it fly...does a meth head need teeth?

    • @MrGodsking
      @MrGodsking 7 місяців тому +1

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  • @stephendawg1
    @stephendawg1 7 місяців тому +37

    I’m jealous. The P-51 has always been my favorite. Glad you had that experience, Jimmy.
    One note to your editor, please leave the music off when you’re flying such an epic plane. The sounds of the flight are part of what we enjoy. Especially the old war birds.
    Thanks.

    • @Billye48
      @Billye48 6 місяців тому +5

      Fully agree with leave the music off but still a great video.

    • @hanc37
      @hanc37 5 місяців тому +1

      The Corsair is my favorite, but the P-51 is so beautiful.

  • @DavidLee-xi1of
    @DavidLee-xi1of 2 місяці тому +9

    I had a Uncle that was the Top Ball gunner on B-17s during WW2. After the War he got his pilots licenses and would fly every weekend in a Cessna 175 Skylark. At the time I was only around 7-year-old yet we go up and he let me fly the plane. I couldn't even reach the rudder pedals unless I was half out of the seat. Buy the time I was 18 I had learned to fly. He told me going up somehow made him feel closer to God. He passed away in the 90s. Truely this is on my Bucket list before I die. So Lucky.

  • @chipsatterly4902
    @chipsatterly4902 7 місяців тому +97

    My dad was a waist gunner in a B17 w the 8th AAF 379Th BG.
    Flew a lot of combat missions over Europe in the later days of WW2. He said that the P-51 "Little Friends" were a huge game change for the BG's. They could fly ALL the way to and from the mission targets over Germany. Thus, virtually no German fighter threats against the B-17 BG formations. Only the flak became dangerous when the enemy fighters were gone. Amazing aircraft.

    • @JamesMarcella
      @JamesMarcella 7 місяців тому +5

      Dad was a belly gunner on “Fools Paradise “ 8th Air Force. Member of lucky bastards club with over 30 missions.

    • @Belznis
      @Belznis 7 місяців тому

      I heard in one documentary that they would take out a squadron of bf109s in mere seconds. Flying from above and going down on them.

    • @1112223333111
      @1112223333111 7 місяців тому

      your dad murdered German civilians and helped win a war for communist jews. you should be proud. look at your country now and look where that got you

    • @ClearedAsFiled
      @ClearedAsFiled 7 місяців тому +4

      ​@JamesMarcella Your dad is a war HERO.....that was a very tough gun position in the B17

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 7 місяців тому +2

      My uncle (dad's brother) was a nose gunner in a B-24 during the war. I still have black and white photos of his crew standing and kneeling in front of their airplane. I never heard him talk about it as a young boy growing up. He was a super quiet guy.

  • @Poundingsand
    @Poundingsand 7 місяців тому +11

    I have the pleasure of hearing this plane make passes over my place in Palm Springs. I never fail to run out and find it in the sky. It's a beautiful sight.

  • @CanardBoulevard
    @CanardBoulevard 7 місяців тому +24

    I had a great friend of mine, Lt. Col Jim Sanders (not kidding) who was a bomber/navigator in B-17's in WWII. He had quite a few missions before being shot down and made a guest of the Luftwaffe at Stalag Luft III. He escaped during a forced march by diving into a snowbank and waiting for hours for the column of 10,000 men to march past. He said he also "didn't appreciate being strafed by our own planes" during the march. He was recaptured and sent to Flossenburg in Nuremberg, where he escaped again to freedom in Paris shortly before the war ended.
    Later he flew in B-52's, and saw action over Korea and Vietnam, and flew Chrome Dome missions during the Cold War before finally retiring. An amazing man, and a good friend to me, he kept learning until he passed in 2005. He told me SO much about flying in the B-17's in WWII. He was partway through writing a book when he died, unfortunately. He had sent me several chapters as he was writing them.

    • @flllooofie
      @flllooofie 2 місяці тому +2

      I am glad he wrote all the thing s he did , someday people may understand the sacrifices that your parents have made to give you your freedom , sorry about this new generation

    • @richardkunkle9924
      @richardkunkle9924 Місяць тому

      @@flllooofie Well said.

  • @arthursulenski799
    @arthursulenski799 7 місяців тому +17

    I am 82 YO, have loved the P-51s for as long as I can remember, saw them sold as scrap (but they were complete). I was a mechanical engineer and have wanted to fly in one since I knew of them. I saw them fly over my home, central Illinois, during the war, those engines were always awesome. Thanks for this wonderful program and listening to men who actually talked to some of the Airmen from WWII. One of the friends of the family was Forest (old mind, possibly Millikin) who was a bombardier over Germany in a B-17, listened to stories he told my dad.

  • @HLS6935
    @HLS6935 5 місяців тому +5

    The sound of freedom. Timeless design.

  • @monsenrm
    @monsenrm 7 місяців тому +95

    Two tiny corrections. The aircraft at Dayton is Boxcar that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki. Enola Gay is in Washington. The guy that walked up to you died in 2009. Possible ghost? He was Charles Donald and Asbury.

    • @neilblankenship7900
      @neilblankenship7900 7 місяців тому +27

      Bock's Car

    • @therealjimmysworld
      @therealjimmysworld  7 місяців тому +30

      Very cool. Thanks for the info. It would have been 2001’ish when I went there and met the guy

    • @bassassin2ohseven584
      @bassassin2ohseven584 7 місяців тому +4

      Apparently the P51 pilot isn't a fan of your channel. That was a pretty weak "clear prop"...🤣

    • @FunktasticLucky
      @FunktasticLucky 7 місяців тому

      And both built in Nebraska on location at Offutt AFB.

    • @dunetrash909
      @dunetrash909 7 місяців тому +7

      The Enola Gay is in Virginia at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

  • @pctshooter
    @pctshooter 5 місяців тому +3

    See, I was thinking Bunny had a really nice tan and then it dawned on me that this might be one of the Red Tails.

  • @MeOneP
    @MeOneP 3 місяці тому +4

    Thats a piece of Art... Timeless

  • @alanbabcock1438
    @alanbabcock1438 7 місяців тому +33

    Great video! Thanks for the tour of the B-17. My Dad was training as a B-17 pilot when,late in the war it was decided that no more pilots were needed and he trained as a gunner, His plane exploded due to an AA round in the bombay. He was on his fourth mssion over the enemy ( about average lifespan) and spent the last four months of WW II as a POW. During the Korean War he was again in the air and this time in the B29.

  • @Turboy65
    @Turboy65 7 місяців тому +7

    Jimmy totally needs to end up getting a back seat ride with either the Blue Angels or the Thunderbirds.

  • @tackanderson4270
    @tackanderson4270 7 місяців тому +11

    I love this bird; she's been my favorite since I sat in one as a youngster in 1968. The story of her existence is majestic. Everything about her screams freedom!

  • @stuartburgess2409
    @stuartburgess2409 7 місяців тому +10

    She's a " red tail " one of the Tuskeegee airmans birds or at least painted like one , they never left the bombers stayed all the way, we had the famous 352nd fighter group the blue nosed " bastards of Bodney " stationed just a mile or two from where I'm sitting now in Norfolk UK with their P-51's back in 1944 , great stuff Jimmy as always.😊

    • @Chownz
      @Chownz 7 місяців тому

      That's true, the only squadron to have the painted tail red.

  • @justonsullivan3807
    @justonsullivan3807 2 дні тому

    How cool was that flight. Great American technology back then. Doesn't get much better then that. R.I.P to all the passed away making this country a free and safer place to live. 🙏🇺🇸🗽🇺🇸🙏

  • @grantnyenes3742
    @grantnyenes3742 7 місяців тому +5

    Now that’s more like it! Merlin- best sounding engine ever!!! That’s the sound of freedom, and it’s a lot of BTUs!!!

  • @jonathanfreedom1st
    @jonathanfreedom1st 7 місяців тому +5

    What an absolutely gorgeous bird. Next to the Vought Corsair its amazing. What a privilege. God Bless our veterans of all foreign wars.

  • @andrewharrison7027
    @andrewharrison7027 7 місяців тому +2

    British people love the sound of this engine best engine ever made

  • @phillipwitkowski9932
    @phillipwitkowski9932 7 місяців тому +6

    Was just at the Udvar-Hazy National Air and Space Museum next to Dulles Airport in Virginia outside of DC. The Enola Gay which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan is housed here and the Bockscar which dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan is on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio. Would highly recommend visiting this museum if you have the time. They also have a SR-71A blackbird on display as well as the Space Shuttle Discovery.

    • @jerryerwin2707
      @jerryerwin2707 7 місяців тому

      for years the smithsonian refused to display enola gay for fear of offending japan

  • @ChrisB257
    @ChrisB257 7 місяців тому +6

    You lucky son-of-a-gun Jimmy - beautiful P51 :) Lovely to see all those other classic planes and artifacts etc, particularly the B-17..

  • @jerryparr7156
    @jerryparr7156 7 місяців тому +11

    one of my favorite videos you have ever put out and by a long shot one of the most beautiful planes ever made. So cool to see that old warbird clear her throat. Thank you for this video!

  • @CanardBoulevard
    @CanardBoulevard 7 місяців тому +4

    And in a total coincidence, I have a P-51 flight video coming out on my channel this Sunday!!! :)

  • @Capt_kook
    @Capt_kook 7 місяців тому +3

    Don’t forget that Palm Springs air museum has a UA-cam channel!!! They have a lot of history videos on every plane you can think of.

  • @robertheyes3975
    @robertheyes3975 7 місяців тому +4

    So very cool to see old planes in a museum, not reformed too much. I agree. Jimmy

  • @Mrcrowntown
    @Mrcrowntown 7 місяців тому +4

    As a young fella in the cub scouts, I had an incredible opportunity to be part of the "Young Eagles" program. One event I attended, was at March AFB in southern california, only a short flight away from palm springs. I was lucky enough to fly in a P51 trainer. It sparked my immense interest into aviation! This is such a blast from the past, thanks Jimmy:)

  • @kdharley07
    @kdharley07 7 місяців тому +4

    Jimmy one of your most awesome videos with all the commentary. A great learning experience for all of us. Thank you so much for this.

  • @MrRSKC
    @MrRSKC 7 місяців тому +4

    This is one of my favorite episodes, love all the history on this one

  • @dougpartington1843
    @dougpartington1843 7 місяців тому +7

    As I fly a Cessna 172 today I will imagine dropping my first notch of flaps at 400mph😊!! A fun video to watch and learn about our aviation history.

    • @Mariano.Bernacki
      @Mariano.Bernacki 7 місяців тому +3

      At 400 mph you'll have dropped a wing or two about 100 mph ago

    • @dougpartington1843
      @dougpartington1843 7 місяців тому

      Even then, I wouldn't get there. At least the rising full moon was nice to look at tonight.

    • @EDCandLace
      @EDCandLace 7 місяців тому

      400mph in a 172? You would have ripped the wing off about 150mph before you hit 4 hundo!

  • @bubbaman12289
    @bubbaman12289 7 місяців тому +14

    Still to this day I will die on the hill of the p51 is the most beautiful piece of machinery that mankind has ever built

    • @hulkhoganstights6596
      @hulkhoganstights6596 7 місяців тому

      The chance vought corsair is!

    • @RWBHere
      @RWBHere 7 місяців тому

      The Dehaviland Mosquito looks and sounds even better. 😉@@hulkhoganstights6596 We all have our favourites. Some people even like helicopters. 🤷‍♂

    • @adambratcher3444
      @adambratcher3444 7 місяців тому

      Nope. Both of you are mistaken. The Lockheed 1049 Constellation is by far the best-looking aircraft ever created.

    • @afterburner2869
      @afterburner2869 4 місяці тому

      It’s also one of the most beautiful sounding pieces of machinery that mankind has ever built!

    • @bubbaman12289
      @bubbaman12289 4 місяці тому

      @@adambratcher3444 no….just no

  • @danimal0921
    @danimal0921 7 місяців тому +2

    This was awesome, Jimmy! My Dad's oldest brother was a waist gunner on a B-17. His 17 was shot down on their final sorte and he spent over a year in a German Concentration camp. He was one of the lucky ones that made it home!

  • @woodywoodlstein9519
    @woodywoodlstein9519 Місяць тому

    This is the best guy you’ve ever interviewed. He’s a true pro but down to earth. Great guy. Clearly anyone who was lucky to learn to fly with him was lucky to learn to fly with him. Period. Great guy.
    Amazing plane. Engineers back in the day were better than they are now. This plane was built on paper with pencil and slide rule.

  • @johnwinter9722
    @johnwinter9722 7 місяців тому +2

    Jimmy - really enjoy your videos. This one is so great. My dad passed in late 2021. A Marine Corp Gunny and Korean War veteran (1950-1951...you can figure where his service was), dad wad a Docent at the Palm Springs Museum for many years before his passing. You can find his name on the wall of fame there. We had many great times there getting the "cook's tour" of some of th planes. I flew many hours with him in his Cessnas and a V tail Bonanza. He finished his flying career in a pressurized Baron . Thanks for the great video.n So good to see the museum again,

  • @aljensen7779
    @aljensen7779 7 місяців тому +1

    WOW!!! THANKS FOR THE RIDE, JIMMY. JUST.... AWESOME!

  • @TheModelator
    @TheModelator 7 місяців тому +1

    My mother told me that during WW2 here in London, whenever any German pilot bailled out, a crowd would appear from nowhere ripping the parachute to bits and the pilot would just stand their bewildered at what was going on.
    Many wedding dresses were made using parachute silk

  • @karendeichman7877
    @karendeichman7877 7 місяців тому +17

    Never thought we would fly in a Mustang! Thanks for taking us along!
    Karen and Roger

    • @ScottClevelandmi
      @ScottClevelandmi 7 місяців тому

      According to my Grandfather who was on the ground working anti aircraft equipment stated after a few beers over a bond fire that Soldiers did not need to smuggle German war trophies. The us government would ship it home for you. He did not participate. He told me stuff about that experience that was probably why he was a life long enjoyer of beer.

  • @samfuller6273
    @samfuller6273 7 місяців тому +2

    Call me crazy but i get emotional looking at these planes. The amount of airmen we lost .... the extremely thin aluminum that the bullets passed through like a hot knife through butter. The hell of war they went through.
    I did understand until i went in Piccadilly Lilly II and saw for myself that it had no protection except the offense of many guns and later the beautiful P51D that saved a lot of airmen.
    To all sevice men , thank you!❤ Bad Ass airplanes and the men who flew in them!
    Im glad i dont HAVE to speak German or Japanese..... Not that im against learning on my own.
    Thank you to my Grandfathers Dick Fuller and Arch Hutchens. Both Navy WW 2 veterans. God Bless America!

  • @dennishinkle5010
    @dennishinkle5010 7 місяців тому +1

    Make sure if you buy gold or silver get the metal in hand and not just paper that says you own it. My dad was in SAC during the Korean war era. I met Paul Tibbets several years ago right before he passed. Hes the only real hero ive ever met.

  • @walt8089
    @walt8089 7 місяців тому +1

    Our Unit the 167th FG West Virginia ANG actually retired the last very last USAF P-51 Mustang in January 1957. The Mustang at the AF Museum came from our Unit. My Dad worked in Line Supply from 1950 till around 1955 and told me about ordering parts for the Unit’s Mustangs. When I was a kid, it was a common sight to see them fly over our house in Charleston, WVa. all the time. My favorite aircraft ever built !

  • @C_71
    @C_71 7 місяців тому +3

    My dad was enlisted in the Air Force in 1966. This has been my all-time favorite airplane since the 70s as a kid. The other is the F-86 Saber... they're both beautiful airplanes! I've been in them during open house at O'hare airport many many years ago! He was in the 126th Air Refueling Wing, I'm not sure what unit he was in while he was in Okinawa from 1966-96.

  • @craighermle7727
    @craighermle7727 7 місяців тому +1

    There was an FBO owner in Nashua, NH, who owned a P-51D, used to give drives, and was fortunate enough to get a ride it it. That ride was over 30 years ago, and it is without a doubt one of my favorite aviation experiences. The Mustang's name was Double Trouble II. It too was a single-seat fighter was was adapted for a passenger.

  • @P-J-W-777
    @P-J-W-777 7 місяців тому +3

    My 4 personal favorite WW2 aircraft that I think are the best looking are the B-17, P-38, P-51 and F4U. I do like the Spitfire and several other but those 4 are my favorites in terms of looks. There’s always been something very attractive about a B-17 to me.

  • @DragerPilot
    @DragerPilot 7 місяців тому +1

    I see the correction to the correction has been made. It was Bock’s Car flown by Major Charles Sweeney. I can see the frustration in Jimmys face during the B-17 tour. Any plane lover with an interest in WWII could conduct this tour. Jimmy is saying to himself, “yes I know, can we move this along please”. As many here, I’m an now an old Baby Boomer with a father who was a WWII veteran. My father was a B-25 pilot, (yes he became deaf) transitioning B-29s as the war ended. As with all veterans, it was the best part of his life and the worst.

  • @i.r.wayright1457
    @i.r.wayright1457 7 місяців тому +4

    Keep doing these museums Jimmy, the tours are fascinating.

  • @georgegennuso
    @georgegennuso 7 місяців тому +12

    Jimmy, it's not a Chipmonk. It's a Fairchild PT-19 training aircraft. My Dad had one and I used to fly in the back seat.

  • @johnnyg419
    @johnnyg419 7 місяців тому +13

    Love your passion for all these planes, it’s so cool to see these are still alive and well. Great video as always, Jimmy! Keep the videos coming! 🤙🏽💪🏽

  • @jazzridez
    @jazzridez 7 місяців тому +1

    My Dad was a pilot during WW2 and flew these and most fighters. was shot down in the Pacific and was 1st rescued during new program, operation Lifeguard, wherein the subs secondary, if not 1st, operation was to gather up the downed flyers. Straight up HEROS above the water and below. 56 takeoffs and landings on Aircraft Carriers.

  • @davidb1060
    @davidb1060 2 місяці тому

    Hi Jimmy, love your videos, keep up the great work!. One note on this one: The actual Enola Gay B-29 Superfortress that was flown by Paul Tibbits and dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima isn't in Ohio, she's at the Smithsonian Institution's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA, by Dulles International Airport (a 28 mile drive West from downtown Washington, DC.). In the early 1990s I watched the stages of the Enola Gay restoration taking place at the Air & Space Museum's so-called 'attic', the Paul E. Garber Facility, in Silver Hill, MD, about 3 blocks from my house. That's where the museum did all their restoration work and stored a lot of historic planes that they had finished restoring but they had no room to display them at their museum in downtown DC. Once they opened the much, much larger Udvar-Hazy Center in December of 2003, all those 'extra' restored planes could be put on display, and that's where the Enola Gay has been since the facility opened. If you've never been there, you really need to see it. Incidentally, the man the museum's 'attic' was named after, Paul E. Garber, was the first curator of the Air & Space Museum, and he was a WWI pilot flying the biplane 'Jennys'. He lived into his 90s and I chatted with him on one or two of my visits to the facility named for him and he told me how he was shot down by the Germans twice in that war.

  • @happycanayjian1582
    @happycanayjian1582 2 місяці тому

    So cool to watch this video. I had my family at this museum just a week ago today and I’ve got a picture of one of my sons in front of that particular Mustang, and also an obligatory one of my wife making a big grimace in front of the P-40 Sharkmouth. 😂 It’s a fantastic museum. Their display has grown a lot since I’d last been there probably a dozen years ago or so. It’s always great to talk to the docents, as well. I could listen to their anecdotes all day long. ❤️

  • @CmdrPewpeez
    @CmdrPewpeez 5 місяців тому +1

    The P51 is the sexiest plane ever built

  • @DBEdwards
    @DBEdwards 7 місяців тому +1

    MAGNIFICENT P-51. WHAT A FANTASTIC SPECTACLE IN THE SKY!

  • @wjadams2
    @wjadams2 7 місяців тому +3

    Palm Springs Air Museum is so awesome. Also for anyone that is interested in learning more about glider pilots in WWII, there is a great book called For Us Der Var Ist Over, by James Ferrin. It is a great book to learn about what glider pilots had to go through in their missions.

  • @captaindaedalus1
    @captaindaedalus1 Місяць тому

    Loved the museum tour, especially the stories of the docents.

  • @Bass.Player
    @Bass.Player 7 місяців тому +1

    "Fat Albert" LMAO! Fat man and little boy were the bomb names of the Manhattan Project..

  • @MartinScheuerJr
    @MartinScheuerJr 28 днів тому

    “Fat Albert” and “Little Jim” absolutely made my week hahahaha

  • @richardphelan8414
    @richardphelan8414 7 місяців тому +1

    You Just never get tired of old aircraft ,love this stuff

  • @Hunterboy01
    @Hunterboy01 7 місяців тому +5

    The Chipmunk isn’t a Chipmunk buddy. It’s a Fairchild PT19. (The blue and yellow one you were in front of).

  • @jimp.7286
    @jimp.7286 7 місяців тому +1

    You deserve that ride jimmy for all you do for the world of g.a.. 👍.
    Got a p51 that lives at our local fbo, (also out west),. A private owner not connected to any museum. It's a real beauty but they try to keep it's existence on the down-low I think. One day I caught the hanger door open from a distance and I could see it in the back corner sharing space with a private jet. They saw me with my dog staring outside the fence. The door went down pretty quick, hahaha. They take it out roughly once per month and our house is right under the pattern and by the time it's overhead, it's already at 800 ft and climbing out quick - usually going around 250mph. I can hear it coming towards us in the living room watching tv. I usually jump up and run out just in time to see it fly over the house. On flight radar it displays as a kind of bat-wing thingy. Another good one Jimmy. Glad you got to do this! Cheers! 👍

  • @ronald8673
    @ronald8673 7 місяців тому +1

    My uncle was in the 907th Glider Field Artillery Battalion. Not only did some gliders have troops but some had jeeps and field howitzers and crew inside. The Horsa gliders were made primarily of wood and the Wacos were tube and fabric. The F117 Nighthawks are stripped probably due to the radar absorbing paint on them. I think the coating formula is still considered Top Secret.

  • @georgew.5639
    @georgew.5639 7 місяців тому +3

    Now that is what I call a high performance single engine aircraft! 😁

  • @captaindaedalus1
    @captaindaedalus1 Місяць тому +1

    I have a tale to tell. During WWII, the U.S. Army Air Force used the property of my great aunt as an airfield. When WWII ended, it abandoned a half dozen Mustangs along with several replacement engines on the property. As a kid, I played in one of those aircraft moving the control stick around and pretending I was flying. After I started learning to fly, I realized that I might want one of those Mustangs. I was very disappointed to learn that my great aunt's sister had sold all the planes and engines. What a bummer. I wonder how the course of my life might have been affected had I been able to get one of those planes.

  • @ronnydowdy7432
    @ronnydowdy7432 7 місяців тому +1

    Great video. So much history there.I thank you and everyone else for sharing this information.

  • @MrRotaryrockets
    @MrRotaryrockets 7 місяців тому +2

    I researched..Robert ( Bob) Friend after I saw the RedTail..he flew with the Tuskegee Airman ..as well he also served in the Korean war..as well as the Vietnam war too he served for 28 years..quite a remarkable career.

  • @johndeerfan5599
    @johndeerfan5599 7 місяців тому +4

    Now that would be my dream to own a p51d mustang😎. My favorite ww2 fighter

    • @youngenuf
      @youngenuf 7 місяців тому +3

      I have a hard time deciding between the Mustang and the Corsair...

    • @johndeerfan5599
      @johndeerfan5599 7 місяців тому +3

      @@youngenuf that's a tough decision between two amazing warbirds

  • @TheChaz81
    @TheChaz81 5 місяців тому

    Love these people working at the museum learning the story to teach and preserve our history!

  • @joegarrett8166
    @joegarrett8166 5 місяців тому

    Oh Man Jimmy you’re luckier than a 2D Dawg dude!!!what an experience!! My dad’s boss owned a P-51 back in the 50’s. “Pacos Bill”. He got to fly in it in his 20’s. A few years ago I was communicating with Pilot Cowden Ward who then owned and operated the plane as an Honor Flight operation. I was to meet him and see the plane at the up and coming Houston Air Show later that year but unfortunately the plane suffered an in flight failure and Mr. Ward along with a 90+ yr old veteran WW11 died and destroyed the P-51 at a Fredericksburg Tx event for the Nimitz Museum. Glad your ride was a thrilling experience!!

  • @1999Valkyrie
    @1999Valkyrie 7 місяців тому

    A hundred "thumbs up" for this video!! Thanks for taking us along!

  • @rhanemann9100
    @rhanemann9100 7 місяців тому

    Bill Lear and Clay Lacy are legends. Jimmy should know that.

  • @karencrumlich8204
    @karencrumlich8204 7 місяців тому +1

    This museum painted this plane after my dad Lt Col Robert Friend - He loved Bunny and enjoyed flying in her when he could

  • @Yeraveragemoron
    @Yeraveragemoron 3 місяці тому

    Jimmy - I live vicariously thru you! Go get it!

  • @peterburton3147
    @peterburton3147 7 місяців тому

    This is one of your best, most informative posts. Thanks!!!

  • @RV4aviator
    @RV4aviator 2 місяці тому

    American Airframe and a British Engine was a match made in Heaven...! You couldn't script it better...! ANY Pilot , even today , their eyes widen when P-51 Mustang is heard...!

    • @martinoneill4857
      @martinoneill4857 29 днів тому

      Imagine a mustang with the rolls Royce griffin engine, that would be something to see for sure.

  • @TreDeuce-qw3kv
    @TreDeuce-qw3kv 4 місяці тому

    Thanks for the ride...👍👍

  • @quickdeuce
    @quickdeuce Місяць тому

    As that beauty lifts off I'm imagining all those 18 and 19 year old 'kids' pulling back on the stick for their very first flight back in WWII, can you imagine?!!

  • @peterfranks7619
    @peterfranks7619 5 місяців тому

    I’m a RC plane guy, had a p51 foam plane it was electric and my favorite plane I’ve ever had. Watching the video when it’s taxing and landing it just doesn’t look real it’s so beautiful. I also watched Tom Cruse video on his p51. Just an amazing warbird.

  • @Belznis
    @Belznis 7 місяців тому

    Fantastic video, I really enjoy history regarding old planes and vehicles and this was one of the legendary planes from WWII.

  • @philipwilliams7947
    @philipwilliams7947 7 місяців тому +2

    Id like to see Jimmy fly in a Corsair, and call people Pappy :) Remember Baa Baa Black Sheep TV series back in the day? Loved that show, lol

  • @Dezemi
    @Dezemi 2 місяці тому

    I love this guys enthusiasm, super contagious

  • @brendonhearn8778
    @brendonhearn8778 7 місяців тому +1

    Jimmy, you are one lucky son of a gun! I am man enough to admit it, I'm seriously jealous!!!!! That engine is the best sounding of all time. IMHO.

  • @dnoslen6124
    @dnoslen6124 7 місяців тому +1

    I think Clay Lacey did a lot of flying for the movies in Hollywood

  • @paulnelson5314
    @paulnelson5314 7 місяців тому +1

    The P-51 is my favorite!

  • @--Zook--
    @--Zook-- 7 місяців тому

    When my daughter was growing up (shes 26 now)any trip we went on we did the squished penny. such great memories

  • @leerouse2001
    @leerouse2001 7 місяців тому

    Awesome,‼️ thank you🫵 for the tour. Great camera, man.🫵👍‼️

  • @bmwbob51
    @bmwbob51 7 місяців тому +1

    Both Kathy and I have ridden in P51s at the Hollister, CA. airport a few years ago. There used to be 6 or 7 P51s based here and they built them for the Reno air races here. There's only 1 or 2 still here. When I went up we did canyon runs and I was looking up at redwoods :)

  • @87bones87
    @87bones87 7 місяців тому +1

    Finally the P51 ride!

  • @OcotilloTom
    @OcotilloTom 7 місяців тому

    I was a neighbor to Theodore "Dutch" Van Kirk in Novato, Calif in the 90's. He was the navigator on the Enola Gay and last surviving member of the crew if I remember correctly. Also a great guy and good neighbor! I didn't know who he was when I first met him. We were discussing a visit I had just made to my hometown of Monroe, Louisiana...he mentioned he went to navigator school at Selman field, in Monroe during the war...that started our relationship. Me being a retired Vietnam veteran of the Marine Corps we had lots to talk about. We NEVER talked about the bomb or that mission.
    Tom Boyte, GySgt. USMC, retired
    Vietnam 1965-66/1970-71
    El Mirage, Arizona

  • @ianburit3705
    @ianburit3705 7 місяців тому

    Fantastic video for many of us, but, special for me as I will never get to visit that place now. Little things bring happy memories of visiting the USA, to touristy Florida, but, we did the squeezed penny thing wherever we could, Including our NASA trip. Sometimes young Jimmy you outdo yourself on videos, and I have to admit, I happily listened to everything said and laughed when needed, but loved the video, as I love planes, and still, the sound of a Merlin on full chat sends shivers down my old spine, its a sound never to be forgotten. Once a year where we live right on the coast, we have a free air show for two days, and when the 4 Merlin-engined bombers flanked by a spitfire and hurricane fly so low over us, the noise IS amazing. Thanks again Jimmy, from merry old England

  • @tplugnickel
    @tplugnickel 7 місяців тому

    Awesome Tour!

  • @donwheeler1683
    @donwheeler1683 5 місяців тому

    Jimmy, These videos are awesome!!! Thanks so much for taking so much time (I bet you enjoyed that) making these available to those of us that won't have the opportunity to visit these wonderful museums! I agree, working planes are so much more interesting than static beauties! Thanks!! =D=

  • @AnDrEw122100
    @AnDrEw122100 2 місяці тому

    One of my favourite aircraft. So cool . Crazy what they were capable of , even crazier when it was built in the 1930’s .

  • @cuttersidwell
    @cuttersidwell 7 місяців тому

    This is the coolest airplane you've ever had on the channel. Absolute insanity! Pure speed.

  • @stephenreese5921
    @stephenreese5921 7 місяців тому +1

    My great uncle was with the 88th glider infantry regiment (GIR) which eventually became part of the 82nd airborne. He was a pilot. The crew of the glider landed, dismounted and fought as infantry. I believe the glider was a Waco.

  • @markcorboy8528
    @markcorboy8528 7 місяців тому

    Your ride in the rear of the P51D was a re live of my 50th birthday present from my partner in Graham Bethels P51D out of Ardmore airfield Auckland New Zealand 2008. Had similar issues with my hard drive video camera due to the G forces as I didn’t disable the drop protection function and it was regularly shutting down during the flight. Well done.

  • @v8tergt653
    @v8tergt653 4 місяці тому

    7:40 Tom we haven’t even had our first date yet🤣🤣🤣

  • @mikerubenhold1066
    @mikerubenhold1066 7 місяців тому

    Great vid there Jimmy!! Loved the museum footage

  • @sobrr13
    @sobrr13 7 місяців тому +1

    @jimmysworld my great grandfather Glenn Rittenhouse was in the backup bomber as a tail gunner of the enola gay. They trained down in Buckingham airfield in Buckingham, Florida. I live in Cape coral, Florida and work for the sheriffs office which has a gun range at the air field. What a crazy world right! My grandfather Ken Rittenhouse became a pilot in his younger years and passed away with 26,000 private flying hours and owned a FBO in Bloomington Illinois called Image Air.

  • @RV4aviator
    @RV4aviator 2 місяці тому +1

    Jimmy, you have just reaffirmed my desire to travel to the US and Tour Every, Air and Space Museum in the Continental USA. Cheers.

  • @zeppelin5000
    @zeppelin5000 2 місяці тому

    Fat Albert and Little Jim... That sounds about right 😂

  • @KensHobbies409
    @KensHobbies409 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for this Video as it was very informal. What an amazing collection as well.

  • @douglasmayherjr.5733
    @douglasmayherjr.5733 7 місяців тому

    Awesome Video, Jimmy. Thanks.