Summers when I worked at the airport there was a local car dealer
(Buicks I think) who had a P-51 and would fly it on Sunday morning
occasionally. Starting the thing and idling (high idle) over to the
runway, then the run-up was an awesome thing to behold. It sucked huge
quantities of fuel at takeoff power.
His idiot son was a year or three older than me, I think he eventually
took over the dealership. Not sure if he got the airplane or not.
--R
On 6/27/13 1:43 PM, Larry T wrote:
Awesome video! I once saw a documentary of the Mustang and one scene
showed the engine being started. As the rich mixture started to
light, licks of flame came from each exhaust stack in the firing order
(of course) ;-) and having it all in slow motion made it even more
impressive! the flames were dancing at the ends of the exhaust. Neat
stuff!
A 4 engine Dehaviland bomber flew over during a air show - it has 4 RR
Merlin engines (same as the P51) so the sound was multiplied by 4 --
making it even better! ;-)
Larryt
91 300D
On 6/26/2013 10:06 AM, Dieselhead wrote:
P-51 is a beautiful aircraft, and was the first production aircraft
with laminar flow airfoil wings. Aside from the vulnerability of the
water cooled engine, it had a bad habit of snapping off wings when
the pilot went into a high speed dive. There is a book out by a pilot
who flew them. He was the only one I ever read who documented the
wing problem. I think the title is dumb but lucky, or something
like that.
BtW, Many WWII aircraft shared the same vulnerability of a water
cooled engine. P-38, P-39, P-40, P-51
F4U, Spitfire, Hurriicane come to mind on the allied side. BF109
and quite a few bombers on the German side.
Anything with Allison or Rolls Royce Merlin or Daimler Benz engines
were water cooled.
Don't miss the last few seconds.
http://vimeo.com/36034351
Footnote: P-51 was awesome but according to my dad (who flew P-47s in
China, mostly air-to-mud) the P-51 engine was water-cooled and the
cooling
system was quite vulnerable to small-arms ground fire. Baring
catastrophe,
the P-47s always came back to base but losing at least one P-51 per
mission
was par for the course.
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