imblaze88, Being that this question was in the beginner's forum, I assumed you were flying a trainer type aircraft. I don't know what a "fazer" is but a P-51, or any warbird of that type and era, requires a lot steeper decent rate to maintain "flying speed". And by "flying speed" in this case I mean the ability to control the direction of the aircraft so you are able to direct the plane to the selected landing spot, be it the runway or an area of least likely damage. Most biplanes are much like warbirds in a dead stick situation in that they must also be pointed down at much steeper angle than a trainer in order to keep the airspeed up enough to have control of it. Drag is the reason for biplanes needing a steep decent rate. I think with warbirds "wing loading" plus drag are what slows them down if you don't point them down enough to keep the airspeed up. In any case, with any airplane, each time you move a control surface that creates additional drag and it slows the airspeed down. Also, when you do bank a plane to turn (slight "roll" motion) you loose lift because now the wings are not at 90 degrees from "Mr Gravity" and his pull downward is greater, you loose altitude. Keep your control surface use to an absolute minimum, keep the nose pointed down, keep your airspeed up, yell "dead stick" so your fellow flyers give you the runway, and take the shortest route back to the runway. If you had to do a crossways runway landing because you couldn't do an upwind or downwind approach, of course don't aim the plane toward the pit/spectator area, do those at one end or the other of the runway where you won't hit anything or anybody. There are an endless amount of "variables" involved in each deadstick case and practice and experience with the aircraft will help you set the decent rate and landing target to keep damage to a minimum. As my instructor (who would shut my engine to an idle) would say, "altitude is your friend" !