ORIGINAL: DarZeelon
ORIGINAL: Iflyglow
Dar,
I live close too Oshkosh, and was there that day. That Mustang crash was caused by two P-51's that were landing at two different speeds. The trailing mustang was a modified P-51 and it was landing much faster, ''still airborne'' when it ran into the back of the leader which was already on his mains.[X(]
David,
The plane that crashed was a P-51C, I believe.
What its pilot tried to do was an 'aborted landing', once he had realized the demeanor he was in; which then resulted in a ground-loop to the right...
This would have also happened in any take-off attempt at too low a speed.
Dar,
He never gave it power to go around "aborted landing", and just did not see him and flew into the back of the "D" Model Mustang that was allready on its mains. The second pilot (Precious Metal not to be confused with the Griffin powered Mustang D raceralso called recious metal) which is a moddified clipped wing A Model" did not try to go around at all. This does not really have anything to do with this modlers problem other than they are both P-51's. The full size Mustang was very low on the power setting, and was flairing for a landing at the time of the impact. His prop was in the fuse of the other faster than he knew what happened. It was very sad, and he should have known that his landing speed was higher than a Stock Wing configured "D Model Mustang".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLnKYJLzjjI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0J3...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD0No...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJoBdwgq_DU