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Moving A Vintage Spitfire Fighter Aircraft Across The Atlantic | Huge Moves |Spark
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2020
- A team of aviation engineers attempt to move a historic Spitfire fighter aircraft over 6,000km from Duxford in England to Easton, Maryland USA for a private collector.
The vintage aircraft can’t carry enough fuel for the team to fly it to the US. Too large to be trucked or shipped intact, this episode follows the team attempt to dismantle it for its epic trek by trucks and ship. This operation is a huge challenge, as the aircraft must be flight worthy after it has been reassembled.
To squeeze the Spitfire inside a shipping container, the team must disconnect the fuselage, wings, nose and tail. They must build a support cradle for each component so they fit, snug, together like a jigsaw puzzle inside the container, and don’t bump or knock around. The journey is fraught with problems. Following a painstaking reconstruction process in Easton, will this classic aircraft survive the journey to fly again?
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My dad served in the RAF during the 1950's and 60's. He remembers seeing piles and piles of Spitfires being scrapped as the jet age began!
Damn, that must have been painful to see
What would they be worth now, how sad !
"It Turned The Tide In 1940"
*Sad Hurricane Noises*
You expected an American show to tell actual facts?
WW1 ended in 1918.
The Tiger Moth is a 1930s aircraft.
Ya I yelled at the video with that comment also
the owner said at the very end " it's like i'm having lunch with Winston Churchill" . Churchill was always drunk buy lunch time, i'm shure he was a great guy.
He seems like a nice guy, He should run for Prime Minister
As a Spitfire nut, I never knew fine tuning the aircraft rigging/ailerons involved simply banging and bending?! Great documentary, lucky man..
Amongst the range of issues already listed with this film, I'd add that the graphics show the engine running backwards....
its crazy to see a plane that goes crazy in the air is so vulnerable on the ground
Thank you for this video! It was a joy to watch.
Oh dear. @ 02.55 this film makes a glaring error. The Spitfire always had UK Rolls Royce built Merlin or Griffon engines fitted bar ONE version: the Mk 16 (XVI) low level special variant of which just 1,054 were built. That was the only version that used the Rolls Royce Packard Merlin engine.
One suspects this script was written by an American company. Like the Tiger Moth being a 'WWI aircraft when it was from the '30s.
All the manufactured hazards and dangers, pretending this is the first time this has been attempted, etc kind of detracts from the actual story.
i agree ... they are also making it seem as if these are scrap if there is even a small dent ... granted they weren't b17's which could practically land at 2 different airbases at the same time half landing at one and the other half landing at another but its not like they werent poked full of holes then sent right back out after getting fuel and more ammo.
Gotta love the Spit!
Freaking BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Warbirds owner are caretakers of history." My friend Larry Kelley taught to me that years ago. That was after He had just bought a B-25 named Panchito.
Dam fucking right!
Somebody's got some serious cash for big boy toys!!❤❤
Or a very successful business and these toys are just legitimate tax avoidance.....
Too much dramatic hype otherwise a good video,John Romain is a National treasure when it comes to historical aeroplanes.
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Animations are hilarious - what COULD happen but didn't :)
What happened to the Rolls Royce motor that the spitfire had from the start? great plane it was
Looking at this spitfire ! I can see why We won the battle of Britain, just look at her lines, Its almost like looking at an E Type Jaguar , Only much bigger in character.and fame !!
@Nutty 570 while i must concede that the hurricane made an enormous impact on the outcome of the dog fights, You cannot , ever under estimate the role the spitfire played.
Awesome!
Great video. BUT so pleased to watch on here and FF past the bloody singing that been adopted on all the resent move videos
£30,000 to send in a container. Fly it to Scotland, Island, Greenland, Canada, America. This has been done with light aircraft hundreds of thousands of times. Three easy days, day time plying.
A bit of a risk doing that with a virtually priceless historic treasure. Who knows how reliable that engine would be.
Just let the audio of the engine speak for itself instead of drowning it with horrible music. We all want to hear the Merlin!
My uncle do plumb did that .he flew his spitfire in Windsor Ontario in the 70s
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Something tells me a plane that could take bullets and bombs and fly home, get patched up,, and go back out, is a little stronger than they're making it out to be.
The British narrator’s pronunciation of Maryland as “Mary Land” is hilarious.
It's his recieved pronounciation
Guess it makes up for the multiple mispronunciations Americans make of British names/places.
🧡 BEST STORY 🐱 I LOVE 🧡 SPITFIRE 🐱🧡
What that machine and it’s pilots did for us In our hours of need we can never thank it nor them enough.
Poor Hurricane D:
Rolls Royce merlin was conceived by rolls royce, howeverThe Packard V-1650 Merlin is a version of the Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engine, produced under license in the United States by the Packard Motor Car Company. The engine was licensed to expand production of the Rolls-Royce Merlin for british use also it found its way into the P51 Mustang.
It went into the P-40F and L before the Mustang and the original purpose of the Packard production was for Canadian built Lancaster, Hurricane and Mosquito aircraft which avoided the huge logistics problem of shipping valuable RR built Merlins across the Atlantic. All these were being produced before the Mustang was tried by RR with a Merlin in the UK.
The rest as they say is history. And a glorious one as well.
Sorry, Day time flying. VMC. Look for a good weather slot. You could fit extra tanks, but not really necessary.
ahh yes, this video came out literary after i won a match as the spit in WT
yes
Packard? Rolls Royce Merlin.... Packard built some for the USA to turn the p51 into something worth flying
Merry Christmas everyone
A great aircraft deserves a better made video to demostrat this difficult delivery, seems like a circus with russian revolutionary singers with a silly song, bloody awful.
Where is it today has it been sold to some one else ?
The tiger moth is not A ww1 airplane. First two min we are not off to A good start.
I might be uncultured, but is the ‘Angels in the sky’ song a real song?
i think so
21:09 who sing that song?
Plz help i like it
@@khulehkhulani287 to be honest I have no idea
@@khulehkhulani287 Same! Pretty please to anyone who can!
@Spudman thanks!
Apparently…. Apparently, doing things like this is EXTREMELY risky.
WE GET IT!!!! 😂😂😂
just watching the video was stressful with every little bum on the plane, i cant imagine how stressful it was for the engineers
Rolls Royce Packard Merlin!!!!! WTF.
That means this dude is in his late 80ds.
This was an ifixit teardown for the Spitfire
aww1 Tiger Moth?! well who knew? probably De Havilland......
Christ that guy John romain sounds like Chris packham
How did they get fighters like the p-51 and other fighter built in North America to Europe in ww2? Air craft carriers and cargo ships? Or were they just kits for final assembly in England.
I think the smaller planes like fighters went over on ships, and the B17's and 24's flew over.
In Crates by ship.
Mustangs were flown over with the overwater tanks. In fact, young pilots just learned to fly the P-51 while flying here over the Atlantic. No time to dilly-dally!
@David Ogborn very cool, I will have to look into that. Thanks.
Excuse me but I'm from the Arctic and I have run many airplanes in hangers, just idol but yeah. It was so cold outside it cost $100 just to rewarm the hanger in the 90's also aerosol cans would freeze and burst in minutes. It would get up to minus 30 at noon so we'd do all our A/C shifts then. Different environment for sure.
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Love the episodes hate the opera music in every one.
Why did you not mention the founding father of The Spitfire? R J Mitchell?? The Genius inventor of the Worlds Greatest fighter plane!!
Engine information is wrong it's not a parkard it's just a rolls Royce merlin the Packard was for the p51 mustang not the spitfire
Every Merlin ever made is a Rolls-Royce.
@@julianneale6128 yes but there is the parkard ine that was made by the usa
Packard built Merlin engines under licence in the USA.
@@spacedreamz3820 yes. It's a Rolls-Royce aero-engine that happens to be built in a factory that's not owned by Rolls-Royce. That doesn't happen to mean it's not a Rolls-Royce engine.
I mean my fantastic Foxconn (a Chinese company) IPhone X is great. Even though my Iphone was manufactured in China, it doesn't mean to say it's a Chinese phone.
Ah. You caught that too. Also, I'm sure this isn't the first time an antique airplane has been shipped across the Atlantic. I jus don't think there has been one with as much dramarama attached. Cool video though. Wish I could fly some of those old warbirds.
Why didn't they just dismantle it, send it to Easton inside a cargo plane, fly the cargo plane to a Long enough runway, take it out of the cargo plane, reassemble the spitfire, then fly it to Easton.
@Nutty 570 the C-17 is a military aircraft, which means it is not used by civilians.
@Nutty 570 that could be true, but I couldn't be sure as I am not in the military.
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Umm dose anyone actually know that she has been sent back home now to England and she was there for a few years
🇬🇧👍🙏🏻 just another way of thanking the Brits
Hello
Welll who knew the Tiger Moth was a World War One aircraft!
LOL!
That was the first big mistake, as it first flew in the 30's, im sure i will see/hear many more on this vid
Well that particular Tiger Moth was owned and flown by Barron von Richthofen before he was shot down so i heard :) hehehe :)
Why didn’t they fly it over.
Did you not watch the video? 😂
Narrated by Brynjolf?
Polish Squadrons 303 and 302 🇵🇱 were fighting and flying in hurricans
The Merlin engine was designed and constructed only by Sir Henry Royce ; it was only built under licence by Packard .
Stanley Hooker was the chief designer who was responsible for the development of the Merlin at RR.
10:21 "They carefully remove the propeller" No they levered off the spinner with a screwdriver! Animals....
No , No , No No : these aircraft ( well the Mustangs ) were constructed in the USA and flown over via the Northern track to deliver them here during the war , there is no reason it could not have been flown over the same way . The only reason not to fly it over is that it may have been cheaper to ship it in a container .
Wow
I'd like to see them take a flying saucer apart and ship it across the ocean.
Rolls Royce Packard????????..
1:30
Look at the side of the plane
Now look at my profile picture.
Familliar?
Correct me, if I'm wrong, but that P-51 was fighting Hungary, not Germany....
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What totally revolting, annoying and unnecessary music, who the hell thought that was a good idea on an otherwise very good program
Why not just fly it over ? When the Americans built Mustangs under licence for us , they were flown over . As long as the aircraft was airworthy there would be no reason to fly it over via Iceland and Greenland , just as was done in WWII .
The Canadians flew their Lancaster over and back the same way recently .
For goodness sake , it could even have been transported in one piece on one of our aircraft carriers , which have made that journey in recent times .
That's a really nice tax write off.
i don't like the manufactured suspense its way over the top ... these things would land with holes all over them get more fuel and ammo then go right back up again aerodynamics be damned. missing a cylinder fine you have 11 morenot too many people who flew those were worried about scratched paint or a small dent.
World war one tiger moth😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
First view.
First like.
I am next....
the singing just ruins it,,,
First time first
Tom is a real good man, taking great care of that Mustang, P40 and Tigermoth and other planes, and them cars. But the way he made his money, by profiting of healthcare companies???? that is just pure shit ngl. there should be not be such things. Well at least the ones that interact with patients and drain them of money. They can drain the government so that the government can save lives for free
It should have been flown rather than dismantled and transported .
They explained why it was not practicle to fly it by air,fuel tank capacity.
@@angelreading5098 Yes , it was not practical .
It should have been flown .