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This is a very interesting video on the WWII P-51 Mustang. The interesting thing to me is the bubble canopy on the D model. I is just like the canopy on the F-16 that I flew. The view out of the F-16 was like there was no canopy at all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Cwn4G ... 104.536312

Also go to www.fagenfighterswwiimuseum.org some really good
stuff in that place. they are located about 120 miles west of
Minneapolis, Mn. Have been to it a number of times. Great stuff.........

That was a fun flight, thanks for the share.

jsburger wrote:This is a very interesting video on the WWII P-51 Mustang. The interesting thing to me is the bubble canopy on the D model. I is just like the canopy on the F-16 that I flew. The view out of the F-16 was like there was no canopy at all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Cwn4G ... 104.536312

This video is of the "C" version, is that the one you wanted to link us too?

Here is one with the "D":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94HRSACNZ_w

Well I just spent about 4 hours watching who knows how many of these videos. Passed the link on to the the airplane interested brother so this was a fun time having something to special to do tonight and I know Chuck will enjoy them too, thanks!

Ed

That video reminds me of a small airshow that I went to way back when in college, late 70's. I had devoured countless WWII aviation bio's as a teenager, and P-51's were unquestionably the best fighter U.S. fighter of the war. But F-4's ruled the air at the time, and they made P-51's seem almost antique.

Well, I gained a whole new respect for P-51's at that airshow, when a couple of them buzzed the runway. Basically a simulated strafing run, and I was standing less than 50 ft. from the runway. If it had been real, I would have been a dead young man. In terms of ultimate effectiveness, the main difference between the P-51 and the F-4 was that the the P-51 would have given me a couple of extra seconds to crap my pants before killing me.

...and P-51's were unquestionably the best fighter...

PERIOD!

End of statement!

But, the P-51 was a bear to fly.
As Chuck Yeager said, have an
itch, just remove your hands from
the stick, and the Mustang will
scratch that itch. (And, you'll
be dead!)

I'd LOVE 2 hours in a Mustang!

steve

My favorite, the P 38 Lightning, and I think it had counter rotational engines so it could turn an equally tight turn in either direction, not like a single engine prop fighter. Plus the 20mm Cannon.
http://lockheedmartin.com/us/100years/stories/p-38.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCapVFcVR1o

http://www.boldmethod.com/blog/lists/20 ... lightning/

reible wrote:

jsburger wrote:This is a very interesting video on the WWII P-51 Mustang. The interesting thing to me is the bubble canopy on the D model. I is just like the canopy on the F-16 that I flew. The view out of the F-16 was like there was no canopy at all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Cwn4G ... 104.536312

This video is of the "C" version, is that the one you wanted to link us too?

Here is one with the "D":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94HRSACNZ_w

Well I just spent about 4 hours watching who knows how many of these videos. Passed the link on to the the airplane interested brother so this was a fun time having something to special to do tonight and I know Chuck will enjoy them too, thanks!

Ed

Oops, I guess uTube had rolled over to the next video in line. Here is the correct link. That is what I get for not checking the link before posting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Cwn4Gb3qc

ERLover wrote:My favorite, the P 38 Lightning, and I think it had counter rotational engines so it could turn an equally tight turn in either direction, not like a single engine prop fighter. Plus the 20mm Cannon.
http://lockheedmartin.com/us/100years/stories/p-38.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCapVFcVR1o

http://www.boldmethod.com/blog/lists/20 ... lightning/

I spent the last 12 years of my AF career in the 421 FS Black Widows. The squadron was formed in 1943 and deployed to the Pacific theater with Douglas P-70's. They proved ineffective and the squadron was re-equipped with the Lockheed P-38H Lightning. They were a day fighter with no radar like all the other fighters at that time. In 1944 the 421'st received the Northrop P-61 Black Widow. It was very similar to the P-38 but it had radar. It was the first fighter designated as a night fighter and painted black. Hence the squadron became the Black Widows as it is named today.

Interestingly, when I deployed for the first gulf war in 1990 to the United Arab Emirates as the weapons flight chief the 421'st was the only fighter squadron to have the Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) pod. Just like WWII we could see things at night that other fighters could not. Almost all of the sorties we flew during the war were at night.

In the 80s and had the house in Mequon, WI there was Grafton, WI to the north, about 6-8 miles due North of me, a bit less developed, a guy had about 80 acres I am guessing, his house and a grass field, a few Hangers, and he had his Stutz Bear Cat bi wing stunt plane, after work or on an off day, when out running, I noticed him, he would be out practicing.
So one day out running, I heard that distinct sound, a P51 Mustang Super/Turbo Charger over head doing climbs and power dives, for a few months, must have got tired of Av gas prices or what ever, gone.
Not hear that in these videos from the cockpit cams, but maybe a backside thing.
Heck Sunday evening at home this past weekend in Atown, on the landing path to Appletons Int Airport, a heavy came over the house, I happened to be outside, a B747!!! At best a DC 10, but mostly 737s.