GLACIER GIRL ROCKS! P-38 Lightning at the Reno Air Races
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- / warbirdvideos - Just a bit of history. P-38s are very quiet, they're not like P-51s at all. I shot Glacier Girl mostly with a telephoto lens (20-1) Once the plane passed, there was NO engine sound. The background song on this video "Learning to Fly" was written by David Gilmour, the lead Guitarist for the British rock band "Pink Floyd". David owned a P-51 Mustang for a number of years, so he too is a Warbird enthusiast. Many people who see this video don't like the music, well, tough. I do. check out my other videos, many without music at ua-cam.com/users/warbir.... Steve
Glacier Girl is the Lockheed P-38F-1-LO Lightning that was recovered from under 200 feet of ice on the remote Greenland Ice Sheet after nearly fifty years. Steve Hinton brought her to the 2009 Reno Air Races for public display. Monday morning is always a special time at Stead airport in Nevada because the crowds and those pesky air show announcers are gone and the planes leave for home over the course of several hours in the late morning and early afternoon.
I captured Steve Hinton on a short test hop just prior to his departure with his brother John, who flew a Bearcat.
The day before, Steves son Stevo won the Gold Unlimited Race flying P-51 Strega. At 22 years of age, he became the youngest Unlimited winner in history, taking the honored position from his father who held it since 1978 at age 26.
The shots in the video are purposely a little long, but you guys (and gals) who love airplanes will understand!
Yeah, I'm with several folks. I'd rather hear the Allisons rather than the music.
Yup agree
I get misty eyed every time I see her fly. Such a story and what a beautiful bird!
Truly a beautiful aircraft. Early P-38 like this one were basically “hand built” airframes with a much higher quality finish than the later models.
I love to see any warbird fly, but knowing the history of this one makes it way more than special. Thanks for sharing.
I was there in my hometown of Middlesboro, ky when she flew for the first time since 1942. Those engines sounded like the devil! They sounded so good when she flew by! R.I.P. Roy Schoffner and Bob Cardin.
I prefer the engine music than the noise of the rock band
Exactly
*I didn't come here to listen to Rock Music. I came here to listen to a fully restored P-38*
Escape for Mankind is Keith Johnson. Why do you think it's called Glacier Girl Rocks?
Cut out tne music please.
Milan Pracek: ua-cam.com/video/V0MAv1CHDy8/v-deo.html
the music is just wrong! and I get 'Learning to Fly' but just doesn't sound right! I'd much rather hear the planes'..period..
Well, P-38s are very quiet airplanes, especially the early models (nothing like a P-51). In fact, for most of the flight, there was no sound at all. Even with a directional mic, at 2 miles all you could hear was the grounds people striking the pit area because the races had ended the day before. You might like these videos better:
ua-cam.com/video/V0MAv1CHDy8/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/Nm8WZ5x-vmY/v-deo.html
I sure miss Lefty and White Lightning at Reno😪
Was good - right up to when the music started...
At least they should have used the much better quality Pink Floyd album version. A great choice for background music I'd say.
Music absolutly ruins the video
Saw her fly in Middlesboro KY a couple of times very shortly after her restoration was complete. An awesome piece of machinery!
She does rock . I heard of the B17 and the P38 long before they tried to get her out of the ice . How they were forced down in a blizzard and the mission to retrieve the Norton bomb sight .
I knew of getting out of the ice the restoration but I didn't know what they named her. Very fitting and very cool.
Beautiful bird !!!
beautiful restoration.
Just a bit of history. P-38s are very quiet, they're not like P-51s at all. I shot Glacier Girl mostly with a telephoto lens (20-1) Once the plane passed, there was NO engine sound. The background song on this video "Learning to Fly" was written by David Gilmore, the lead Guitarist for the British rock band "Pink Floyd". David owned a P-51 Mustang for a number of years, so he too is a Warbird enthusiast. Many people who see this video don't like the music, well, tough. I do. Check out my other videos, many without music at ua-cam.com/users/warbirdvideosvideos. Steve
I'd listen to rap to see this beauty fly! Thanks for sharing your video with us. I saw a P38 up close at a CAF show in Galveston as a kid. Built models of it then. I got goosebumps watching your video of the flyover. Truly a treat. Thanks!
"gilmour" not "gilmore"
Sheldon C-s who the fuck cares
you. since you are commenting on a 2 month old post
Most of us know that. The twin exhaust driven turbos quiet the V-1710 Allisons.
Would still prefer silence or natural sound artifacts to lame efforts to build up the adrenaline with bad music.
Pentrex spoils lots of RR videos on the same fashion.
Big engines make beautiful music. Don’t need accompaniment.
BTW, never liked Pink Floyd. And I was a teen in the 60s.
There's nothing quite like the sound of a V-12 at speed in the air!
Gorgeous airplane, right down to the Art Deco air intakes.
God I love these old warbirds, back when planes had class. I had an old family friend who loved the p-38. He'd been in the Pacific in WWII and his company got pinned down by Japanese fire. He had to call in support and a couple p-38s flew in and decimated the Japanese. Never had the chance to learn many details. Talking about that stuff always made him tear up.
Man, that is one beautiful bird.
I don't care what any of you think about the music; I'm enjoying watching a P-38 Lightning. My Dad supported these in Europe during WW2.
what a wonderful story and achievement
Saw her fly by my house in central Texas…honestly my heart leaped when I heard those engines! Nothing can close!
There is no other plane than the P-38. And Glacier Girl is one of the best!
Very good filming, Wow!
Excellent !!! The video of them getting her out of that ice was AMAZING !! Too bad the others couldn't have been rescued.
Yet another otherwise great video F'd up by music!
Steve Collins: ua-cam.com/video/V0MAv1CHDy8/v-deo.html
then YOU make the video
Yep!
Read the description, ya doof
on the contrary, this is perfect
I saw her maiden flight, after restoration. Beautiful.
I SAW IT TO IN MIDDLRSBORO KY. GOT ON MY ROOF OF MY HOUSE WAVING AN AMERIAN FLAG IT WAS BEAUTIFUL, WISHED SHE HAD NOT LEFT OUR TOWN, I WOULD VISIT THE PLACE WHERE SHE WAS BEING RESTORED, SO PROUD IT WAS IN MIDDLESBORO, JUST WISHED SHE COULD HAVE STAYED HERE
The music is off of the Division Bell album, seen it live 2nd row, Arrowhead Stadium Kansas city Miserly. Lmoa One of the best concerts ever ❤❤❤❤
The P-38 Lightening is one of the two sexiest airplanes ever to be built. The other one is the P-51 Mustang. Just my humble opinion. Great music by the way.
Hey Ted - you may like this P-51 video on my other UA-cam channel.
ua-cam.com/video/V0MAv1CHDy8/v-deo.html
Thanks for the positive comment!
Man... I read about this bird. Awesome find!
The P-38F has a beauty all it's own in the various Lightning models with those sleek aerodynamic chin scoop inlets. That airplane looks as if it's going 400 mph sitting still.
Great Plane. Good song. Nice editing touch letting us hear those horses run. !!!
Jerry Prater: Thank you Jerry.
RIP Glacier Girl. You got to live two lives.
What happened?
@@Khemtime
Nothing. Glacier Girl is fine.
There are people confusing the 1994 crash of "California Cutie", the Duxford P-38, with Glacier Girl, because of a video.
I remember the initial finding of this aircraft, and all these years later I am astounded they got her flying again. She landed on top of the ice and was buried in 260 feet of ice over the next decades. Incredible!
Cool no matter what
I gotta say, that gets me choked up. WWII planes seem to have that effect on me...
Go to an airshow you better bring a tissue because I need one.
Amazin how well balanced of a warbird she is... Hats off to Kelly Johnson....
I have never understood what sort of man destroys the audio of a magnificent old warplane by playing idiotic music over it. This is the sort of man who would touch up the Mona Lisa with a Sharpie pen. It's the sort of man who would play Beethoven's Ninth on a kazoo.
We're lucky to still have Steve and his talents as a pilot (and flight engineer, as well) after his Red Baron Mustang crash.
Music of the engines is quite sufficient!!!!
A. Great. Song. Selection...for. a. Great. Video...About. a. great. Plane.... with. A. Great. Storey.... ya.all. have. A. Great. Day...
Great vid and sound track. This was a good combo. Otherwise I would prefer to hear the engine but in this case it was Fantastic!
AFAIK G/G has some sisters still frozen in Greenland. Presumably excavation and restoration costs on those aircraft, if possible at all, would be even more higher than what was expended on G/G.
Shes is beautiful! i would like to see more of her flying though.
LOSE THE DARNED MUSIC ! We want to heat the engines.
INDEED, why the awful music drowning out otherwise superior sounds, of our Warbirds?! Saw Glacier Girl years ago at Lakeland's Sun 'n Fun..........as Joe Lentz said below, it did choke me up, too. In the mid 50's, had a P-38 fly over my house in Miami, on final approach to 27R at Miami International Airport. Until seeing Glacier Girl, I had not seen a P-38 since, let alone up close and touchable! What a wonderful day it was!!
Read the description, you wouldn't be able to hear the engines from his distance...
They are a beautiful aircraft in '78 I was working for Lockheed and they celebrated 50 years in Burbank by bringing in one of pretty much every aircraft they had made. It was special to see all the "Rosie the Riveters" with grandkids in tow telling them that Grandmother helped make them
TrainedWarrior so? Silence. Wind popping at the mic. Even nearby traffic noise.
All would be preferable to some wannabe music hero’s mismatched effort.
@@trainedwarrior502 That's what an amateur does. A pro gets his video shots and then works to capture the sounds and combine them in edit. This is UA-cam where there is a lot of this kind of thing.
I wonder if these 'long-nose' Allisons have some kind of modern prop reduction ring gear. The original was a problem. I imagine modern metals/methods might allow the 'overhung' design to be more stable and robust. This is my favorite mark of 38. Just beautiful. Hinton was the guy you wanted when the 'iron' is priceless.
She is frozen in time now she's back
I would much rather hear those Allison engine than the so called music that drowned out everything .....
Nice video. It wasn't wobbly or out of focus. Beautiful bird!
strega in the foreground! what a show!!
Superb!
Just had to screw it up with the usual goofy music.
bearbon2: next time you make the video.
+Warbird Videos if I was in charge of editing I would have only the beautiful music of the engine!
Warbird Videos next time cease with your lame justification for taking a video production class.
Warbirds and some flash in the pan rock riffs don’t mix.
This is my fav. plane for ever and song. THANKS FOR THE VID.
Mine's called Pretty-in-Blue. 104"ws 25ccX2 gas.
Finally, a Pink Floyd fan!
mark r pa thx so much my very best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sound of engines surpassed Floyd!!
Love aeroplanes and love Pink Floyd but not together please lets hear the plane.
mark r pa usa thx so very much 4 the vid 1 of my top 5 planes ever prop driven again thx so very much
My neighbor was JOE MOSSIER A WORLD WAR II P-38 DRIVER AND PRISONER OF WAR AFTER BEING SHOT DOWN .IT WAS AN HONOR TO SIT WITH HIM AT OUR DRUG STORE WAITING TO PICK UP OUR MEDS AND TALKING TO HIM .WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THE WAR OR THE P-38s IN HIS WAR YEARS , I HAD THE FEELING THAT HE HAD TALKED ABOUT THAT A LITTLE TO MUCH , JOE'S FAMILY WERE ALL FARMERS AND DAIRYMEN AND THE SEATTLE MARINERS PLAYED A GAME IN JOE'S HONOR AND I THINK THEY LOST BUT JOE DIDN'T. HE WAS VERY WELL RESPECTED AND DIED PEACEFULLY TWO YEARS LATER , I WISH MORE MEN WERE LIKE JOE MOSSIER BUT SADLY THERE ARE NONE IN THE AREA . R.I.P. JOE OUR COUNTRY OWES YOU ALOT, AND LOOK AT IT NOW. HOPEFULLY ON THE REBOUND.
OBAMA ALL BUT KILLED IT . D.W
Awwwwww......what the hell is wrong with you people! You totally ...ucked it up with the music!
It I see wonderful to see the p38 flying again, I hope that someone recovers the remaining planes that are still there in the ice! Only 4 flying Red Bull, glacier girl, what are the other 2?? Thanks
Amen! This is a problem from the smallest local airshows, to the big shows, air races, even military demonstration shows. Damn music! Even if it's good music, people want to hear the aircraft, not a concert! When will these organizers/promoters ever get a clue?
The music is Learning to Fly ( Pink Floyd) ............quite appropriate. What a fantastic plane.
lose the efin music
I know she been restored but what was her actual original build date ?
She's a butte ! Keep her flying !
A beautiful airplane and a brilliant piece of 20th Century engineering. Too bad it had to be built to kill at that time.
No worries Kauzmic. I loved the music and a better choice could not have been made. You tube has all the Allison and Merlin engine sounds one could possibly want at the push of a button. I'm with you on the music! p.s. 'loved your " tough, I do" response to those critics too!
Damn, could have been a great video
Know What Kind Of Music Sounds Good In An Aviation Video? NONE, NONE! Aviation Enthusiasts Want To Hear The Engines, Starting, Idling & Full Power . . .
Was that a bearcat tail ? Love the cats
Great stuff, top vid.What a machine.
More to follow ?????
you rock "Fork Tailed Devil"
Well there’s 5 more in the Ice up in Greenland, maybe someone will go get a couple more, not sure about the 2 B-17’s!
Can anyone tell me why they didn’t put Merlin’s in the P 38
Because the Merlin was larger, heavier, less reliable, less fuel efficient, and without the even larger two speed two stage supercharger, made considerably less power.
The Merlin would have made the P-38 slower, less agile, handicapped in range and altitude, and more expensive.
Kelly Johnson, chief engineer of the P-38 program, had a design study done, and the results were bad enough that no actual attempt was made to install Merlins.
Great plane but a more fitting song would have been a Glen Mikkers Moonlight Serenade
I'd rather listen to the air to ground radio chatter than that doggone music. Probably one of the reasons I'm not a subscriber. Homespun DJ's are not what I came to see and hear. Good visual, but the music detracted from the whole for me.
partriarch: I like the video, and actually, I made it for myself (love the song) . There's plenty of p38 vids out there. I also have other vids with the best sound you'll find anywhere, especially for the price you pay to view them.
Thanks for the response. I don't mind the music, but not when I'm trying to hear an already "quiet" aircraft thunder past. I like the deep "thrumming" sound the P-38's engines make as it soars past. I've followed "Glacier Girl" from when it was recovered, through the restoration to former beauty, and the videos of it flying in airshows. Thanks for posting the video anyway. I just turn down the volume, and watch it roam it's home, the sky.
I love Pink Floyd, but I'd rather just hear plane
Given the extraordinary rarity of P-38's today, How TF does one even get "qualified" to fly one?
Can you post a version without the music?
Here's a unique look at a P-38 on my WarbirdVideos channel:
ua-cam.com/video/vpItZm6VHoU/v-deo.html
Hey if it were me flying in her I would be playing my favorite music Iron Eagle stile....
OK, Does nobody know that a P-38 does NOT share the same engine as a P-51? It even says that you wouldn't be able to hear the plane from a distance
+kein mcgill Only in the sense that both the P-51A and the P-38 used variants of the Allison V12. A Merlin-engined P-38 was considered but not built. It would have taken too much time to shut down the production and retool, and the Merlin size would require moving some plumbing and perhaps new landing gear geometry. I do think some design work was done to create QEC engine packages but that was all.
The engineering study commissioned by Kelly Johnson found that there would be only negative results, and zero gains to installing the Merlin. Even without the two speed two stage supercharger that made it work for the P-51, the Merlin is larger and heavier. It literally wouldn't fit. Further, it would ruin the CG. Finally, even with the two speed two stage supercharger, which made the package worse, climb rate, acceleration, top speed, combat radius, critical altitude, and operational ceiling would all be substantially reduced.
The fork tail devil
Wich model of P-38 is that is it the P-38E or P-38G1
It's a P-38F.
Big Question? Would changing the engines make much of a difference. Placing the CCW from Left pylon to right and CW engine from Right pylon to left.
If I remember correctly from reading Martin Caidin's "Fork-Tailed Devil: The P-38", they actually experimented with that configuration during development.
As I recall, it had some characteristics in single-engine flight (done to simulate the loss of one engine) that caused significant control issues; the inward-rotating configuration seen on production models - like Glacier Girl - didn't have those problems.
I WANT TO FLY IN A P38L before I die! My number one BUCKET LIST ITEM! And yes love pink Floyd just not when Allison's are running love sound of all AMERICAN AIRCRAFT, but P38 is the best even if its quietest engine made! Wonder how she would have done in WW2 if they put the same Rolls Royce Merlin's as the P51's! I get that not enough were made, and the nacelles would have to been modified big time! But I think the gains would have FAR OUT WEIGHED ANY BAD PARTS!
I SAW THIS PLANE 3-6 DIFFERENT TIME UNDER RESTO IN KY.
That aircraft was saved from major corrosion while encased in ice by one thing, it's nose wheel. It was magnesium which acted as a sacrificial anode. This is the one part that was very badly corroded.
A good thing, considering.
Something that worse comes to worse could be made from scratch easily enough.
I'd like to strafe my neighbors stupid Tiki Bar he thinks is so cool with a P38.
So, was this P-38 fitted with the dive flaps to address the compressibility issue these planes had?
No, Glacier Girl is an early model. The first P-38 to be fitted with dive flaps when they were built was the P-38J-25-Lo. There were a large number of retrofit kits for the P-38J-10-Lo and later models, but a guy in a Spitfire shot down the C-54 that was carrying them, and they were lost.
Obviously no Pink Floyd fans here.
I wish the whirlwind or the spitfire looked like the p 38 Lockheed lightning
The P-38's sound doesn't rip through the air like a Mustang, but it sure does purr nicely with the twin Allisons and the turbo superchargers. Loose the stinking damm muzak.
If this guy had also gone after Kee Bird, we would also have a second, restored B-29 in the air instead of a burned out carcass in Greenland. :(
Loose the music! All anyone wants to hear are those engines.
Did they ever put merlins/griffons in a p38.
Never. Even without the two speed two stage supercharger, even the Merlin was too big and two heavy
Kelly Johnson commissioned a design study, which proved that the Merlin swap, even if they could either make the two speed two stage supercharger fit, or make the engine run well enough without it, the excess size, and weight, combined with the power reduction, would have resulted in reduced performance in every category.
Kelly Johnsons Baby.!!!✔
lightning lightning lightning.
Is this the last working P38 in the world?
+Brent G There are about nine flying P-38s currently.
From the ice to the skies again.
**And side note ditch the music.