Flying the P-40N Kittyhawk

Helmet-cam and narration of loops and rolls in the P-40N Kittyhawk with Dave Hadfield, July 2020, Gatineau, Canada.
Song "On Track" from the album "Climbin' Away" (c)2018 Dave Hadfield www.hadfield.ca
Aircraft is owned by Mike Potter, and flown in association with Vintage Wings of Canada www.vintagewings.ca

NOTE: There are many comments about how long it takes to go through the checklists and get the thing airborne. In combat the ground crews would have started the engines and done the mag checks etc before sunrise. As soon as the pilots appeared on the airfield they'd go to their aeroplane, talk to the crew about it, check that all the switches and levers were in the right position for a Scramble, and -- very important! -- arrange the parachute and harness "just-so" for a quick strap-in-and-go; and brief the ground crew about exactly how they were going to coordinate the startup and launch. BUT... I fly many different aircraft types, our ground crew have many different duties, and we have no time-imperative. So we use checklists -- which have been shown many times to reduce the "oh-crap-forgot-that" mistakes.