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OK... Now have you ever flown the P-51 Mustang ?

retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
edited January 2013 in General Discussion
Me neither... But you can watch how it's done... Three videos...

Video LINK ONE

Video LINK TWO

Video LINK THREE

Enjoy... [:D]
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The actual Flying procedure and protocol starts at LINK One, time mark 3:15 FYI...
    Prior to that is a kinda memory thought of a 'past' Mustang pilot... Interesting still.
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  • GuvamintCheeseGuvamintCheese Member Posts: 38,932 ✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks! I'm getting none of my work done now!
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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That is a thing of beauty!
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    There's several more I'm going to post... Over the next day or so... [:D]

    Hope y'all are trying to be too productive... [;)]
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  • chris8X57chris8X57 Member Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sigh... I wish.

    Take the greatest piston engine ever built- the Merlin, and stick in the world's best airframe, and you have a plane that can escort the heavies all the way to downtown Krautville and back.
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  • RadarRadar Member Posts: 2,312 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No but had a Uncle that flew one of the twin 51s once,dont remember what they were called.
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  • likemhotlikemhot Member Posts: 2,885 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    really enjoyable thanks.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd like mine in Flying Tiger or Tuskeegee trim please.[:)]
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  • MaxOHMSMaxOHMS Member Posts: 14,715
    edited November -1
    No, but I prefer opening a can with a P-51 over a P-38.

    [:D]
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I suppose you could open a pretty big can with a P-51... [:D]
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  • pawnee66pawnee66 Member Posts: 223 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    No but had a Uncle that flew one of the twin 51s once,dont remember what they were called.

    That was the F-82 Twin Mustang. They were used in Korea.
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  • 4627046270 Member Posts: 12,627
    edited November -1
    I had a mustang, spitfire and Thunderbolt.
    I have started building a few more RC's. I wish I had been born 50 or 60 yrs to late.
    I have been up in a few old planes, been up in a stearman, texan, B-25, P-51.
    In the jet age, been up in a T-33, F-106, F-111A & F, F-16D, F-15 D & E.
    I had toyed with the idea of building a 1/3 scale replica. But due to my back, gave up hope.
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  • XXCrossXXCross Member Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I've flown "in" one, Just not in the front seat. (trainer bought after the war) They look cool in the sky, (and they are all of that) but are they ever noisy an they will shake your fillings out.
    LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT !!
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Flying Tiger was a Curtis P-40 Warhawk, not a P-51.
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great stuff!
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  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A friend is a BP Agent and was on a Ranch in TX yesterday and the owner has his own Airfield. He said the Rancher had two of his P-51 Mustangs out of the hanger and was flying one of them while they were crossing his Ranch.
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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just finished watching the third video, the landing, that pilot made it look like a piece of cake! Practice makes perfect. I was thinking, those planes are worth so much money, why not install a camera in the nose so you can see what's in front while taxiing? They have to keep making those side to side motions to see what is in their way while on the ground. I guess it would take away from the whole experience if you add too much modern technology.
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  • 35 Whelen35 Whelen Member Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fideau
    Flying Tiger was a Curtis P-40 Warhawk, not a P-51.



    I think he was talking about the paint jobs on them.
    An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
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  • texaswildmantexaswildman Member Posts: 2,215 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by shilowar
    A friend is a BP Agent and was on a Ranch in TX yesterday and the owner has his own Airfield. He said the Rancher had two of his P-51 Mustangs out of the hanger and was flying one of them while they were crossing his Ranch.


    Must have been Frank Gruen's ranch. I think they have a few P-51's....
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Fond memory's as a kid- A friend of mine that lived down the street from me back in the 60's, His Dad owned 2 of them. I would remember him calling me and say my Dad is going to do a fly buy at 2:00.

    We would wait outside and you could hear that engine 5 miles away at full throttle and he would fly below the deck at redwood tree top level. The adrenalin rush of that is still with me 40 years later.
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One more pass... [;)]
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