Originally Posted by zrooster

In my experience, it is unnecessary and indeed (in many cases) inadvisable to fully stall an aircraft on landing. Closest I think I've ever come was a blip of stall horn just before touchdown, but that typically comes on around 1.3 Vs. Furthermore, excessive speed is not what causes an aircraft to bounce on landing. 100% of bounced landings are caused by an excessive rate of descent (VVI/VSI) on touchdown. This can be brought about by either a failure to flare, an incomplete flare, or getting too slow at too great a height and dropping it in. The only time I've ever seen excessive speed associated with a bounce is if an individual either touches down at too great a VVI or attempts an abrupt flare to save it...the latter is more of a balloon than a bounce. In either case adding a touch of power and then letting it settle can smooth it out, or simply go around and try again.

Situations where you would want to definitely carry a little extra speed include ~high winds, cross winds or gusty winds. When in doubt, speed is your friend in most situations. In fact, though the WWII vets who originally flew the planes insist a 3 point is the only way to go, they were extremely proficient at the time which is what is required to 3 point those high performance aircraft safely. MOST folks (unless they're Bob Hoover) who fly full scale warbirds today will wheel them on because it's the safer thing to do (a good demonstration of why that is can be found in a fairly recent P51 crash at Oshkosh...individual had it slowed sufficiently to execute a 3 point, but when he tried to execute a go around he torque rolled and crashed...slower aircraft = more susceptible to torque roll). Same reason one might want to wheel on their scale warbird that they've got a couple grand and many hours invested in...at least until they become more proficient and are ready for a new challenge!