P-51 'Voodoo' at nearly 500 MPH -CAUTION-MAY BLOW SPEAKERS!

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The sound of a perfectly tuned racing engine.

[Spooms]

I was standing in the driveway of my parents house in Ballarat, Australia, in 1995, when a spitfire flew over us at what seemed to me to be an incredible speed and low height. The reverberating sound of that engine went right through you. I looked over at my father and he was shaking almost uncontrollably. He had been a radio operator in Lancaster bombers in England in WW2. The enormity of that Spitfire engine must have brought back some phenomenally visceral memories. I almost cry nowadays when I remember he had to go inside his bedroom for the rest of that day. May he rest in absolute peace.

[habdman]

"May blow speakers"

*rises volume to max*

[windellmcspindell]

I was in the U.S. Air Force in 1982 and we along with some RAF pilots were conducting an exercise at an airfield in the desert of Oman. We lived in tents for over a month; it was hot in the day and cold at night. Anyway, near the end of the exercise, six B52s performed a low level passover as a salute and goodbye to us. They were maybe 200 feet off the deck and I clearly remember literally bouncing as the ground shook and the roar of the engines were deafening and bone jarring. One of the coolest things I've ever experienced in my 64 years.

[raygamino]

Two sounds I will never get tired of hearing. The sound of a P-51 engine at the gathering of the war birds air show in Fresno Ca. and Eddie Van Halen’s guitar shredding my ear drums. Both are beautiful sounds. I will never get tired of each of them. Classic and classy.

[joemasello]

Now imagine how many times that was the last sound ever heard while frantically trying to load an ammo belt into a mg42 ...

[pops]

The sight and sound of this aircraft brought back distant memories..

A long gone neighbor now, who was a P-51 pilot told me on numerous occasions, while telling stories, how he and a few of his buddies while flying into the blue looking for German aircraft, how they could not wait to engage the German aircraft and just rip them apart with our
machine guns which felt like they were strapped to our shoulder blades and doing it while sitting in one of the most advanced high performance aircraft in the world, being in full, complete control and harmony - squeezing every bit, plus more, of the performance out of it while gunning down enemy pilots, aircraft and ground targets, and at the same time watching your buddies spiral off in a smoking and burning column into the ground 25, 000 feet down there somewhere never-ever to be seen again.
Frightening stories I tell you. Those young boys stepping up to the plate in those days are men of a character we will never see again. God rest all their soles, from all nations. Why is the madness of our world never going to end.

[tiggersdad]

NOTHING else sounds like a Merlin engine. Music to my ears

[oafishblowfish]

Damn, she`s still really fast, even by our measures. My pappy flew the F-4, my cousin the Tornado, and I flew the Typhoon. Thank you for uploading this clip.

[ItchesIt]

I know our modern jets are orders of magnitude better, but nothing will ever replace this masterpiece. I literally get chills every time I hear one.

[cow_tools_]

Imagine a whole squadron of them in combat flying over.

[mosneguturazvan]

"How does it fly?"
"Like an angel"
"I've never saw angels with 6 .50s"
Red Tails

[roywilkowski]

Several years ago I was ferrying a helicopter across country. Stuck in Monterey, CA for repairs. They had an airshow the next day. five P-51's flat out in a low level V formation. Nothing compares to that number of Merlin engines making their music. Absolutely incredible.

[Artty-flul]

"Tank busters sir, P51's." "Angels on our shoulders."

[flashgordon]

Imagine being 21 years old in a such powerful machine.
He would feel invincible.

[cool]

That is the best sounding aircraft engine I’ve ever heard
Edit: thank you for all the likes

[ikkenhisatsu]

We may be the last generation to appreciate the sound of a high-output internal combustion engine.

[Seveneleven]

The sound of silence, then it screams out of nowhere. Imagine being on the receiving end in WWII

[Neildoci]

I could sit there in a lawn chair all afternoon watching that. Hot rods of the sky.

[Hbomb-nmfv]

Voodoo and strega are the only two airplanes left In the world that have that sound because while they both use merlins they are so highly tuned that they have a signature growl that you can hear about half a second before they scream past it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck and your chest vibrate it’s simply amazing

[johngellare]

To think that soon, you'll only be able to hear sounds like this on youtube breaks my heart. We need more people to keep these beautiful pieces of history in working order!