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We have had a terrible government bureacracy for far too long

For 14 years not one Visitor in the Emu Desert Amazing. Not posable today.

Hey ik its been 6 year since upload but do you have any idea how fast she was going. I bought the same mini zonda with the goal of 100+ kph even 100mph some day.

Atomic bombs are a hoax. Look at the bloke saying "The aircraft survived" etc etc Pure fear mongering

The plane that refused to die may she live forever

This film needs to be restored for history sake.

What A great story ....A couple of Aussie mechanics (and their helpers) demonstrating a great can do attitude and vision...coupled with endurance skill and endless patience... Their emotional highs of the initial success ,sadly followed by agony and despair of senseless defeat... from fat fingered ignorant bureaucracies and inept subsequent handlers.

Thanks folks.......

Just got back from emu airstrip and the bomb sites would have loved to discover something like this

Where are these Mustangs now?Any survivors?

Ass holes and airplanes have no place together. Especially if the assholes are Spartan grads. You know who you are.

To all who might watch this video, this shows a perfect example of the famously infamous quote from Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA, as best remember It. " Bureaucracies run not only slow , but stupid."

Selling it to the U.S.A. was definitely the right move, seeing as how the owner went broke anyway. Well done to our American friends for restoring and truly resurrecting this gem back into its element, with air under her wings.

What happened to the other 5 of them?

Interesting but tragic story, I feel for our would-be hero.

Today we need pink frilly dresses to conform to the days rules, without this a bronzino,s foot will come upon you accordingly with the democrats rules.

Blimey what a story. 👍🏼✨✨

I'd have paid $20 for it, so I dunnow what's wrong with the people who wouldn't pay a dollar for it. Might have gone up to $50. Crazy old me...

Amazing story. Reminds me of the Kee Bird. A B29 that was abandoned in the Artic. Team worked for several years to get her flying. Had a crew member die from illness. Plane caught fire and was destroyed before it's first flight.

Cruel 😢😢

Great story. I probably saw it at EAA. I'm going to check with Warbirds of America to see if it's still around.

love the control tower

A fine tribute to Australian knowhow and manhood!

Tony a fine gentlemen. Gave me my first ferry job!

I have loads of photos of RAAF P51's from when my grandfather was in Nth QLD during the war. Some great ones of P40's as well.

Awwwww that SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how did it get damaged on the ship?

The curse began when the Brits tried to to blow it up with an A Bomb and it continued on, such irony.

What a mammoth task, amazing testament to the Packard built Rolls Royce' engines.

@Whoop!!

Shipping insurance ? The ship's owners should be responsible for any damages while the Mustang was in their possession .

Such an idiotic idea in the first place; to see what would happen to some airplanes near an a-bomb site. A testimony of man’s insanity.

Starting and running that engine full of sand is insanity. Flying it is suicide.

Politicians at work again,,, follow the money trail

Never knew that there were Atomic bomb test in Australia!

Well done

Brutal tale...

This plane is still flying in Troy, Alabama and raced in Reno for most of the 80s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_North_American_P-51_Mustangs

it seems north americans can somehow call concrete -cement or cement-- concrete really cement is the grey powder, and when mixed with sand, gravel and water it then becomes concrete.......... I have mixed a lot...............LOL...

fine aussie ingenuity

Sometimes it’s easier to beg forgiveness than ask for permission 😊

This reminds me of the heartbreaking tale of the B-29 KEE BIRD.

Worked for A68-1 owner back in 1998 as a over the road driver and heard about several aircraft from wwII that he owned. He also had General Chuck Yeager USAF Ret. on retainer to fly a couple of them at different air show around the country.

100% Destroyed in shipment? Insurance fraud?

trying to find out about the song that the program ended with. i cannot find any info on it. Any one got any ideas. I have tried the credits but they have come up blank

Terrific story! I googled the A68-001 serial number and found that the airplane is still flying under the name "Jeanie Too." It evidently won a number of air race contests in Reno Nevada during the 1980's. So - the airplane not only survived WWII and the Atomic Bomb - but bureaucrats as well! Thanks! www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/survivors/serial/A68-001

What a marvelous tale, with ultimately as heartbreaking an end, that one could possibly endure.

At this time, their are 115 morons with IQ's in the single digits, that voted this historical documentary down. Or perhaps they're just Aussie Patriots, glad to be free of the yoke the Brits had on them?

Australia was happy with the tests. No Republic.

Fantastic it wouldn’t happen today too much red tape and bs