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Cool Story on P-51 from the other day
01 March 2012, 04:09
model7LSSCool Story on P-51 from the other day
http://blog.al.com/live/2012/0..._plane_lands_sa.html
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01 March 2012, 06:50
surestrikeWhat a neat story! Getting Bob Hoover on the radio to help out with an active gear problem in flight, that's the stuff of legends.
REALLY cool!
01 March 2012, 16:34
PSmithvery cool. that's great they were able to get in touch with Hoover who knows so much about the Mustang. Question for the pilots: in this case would you then retract the gear an belly land or do you try to go in on the one main gear? Seems like the P-51 would be an plane that would be tough to belly land vs. something like a P-47.
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02 March 2012, 03:32
RockratThink I would rather grind some of the belly off, than take a wing out.
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02 March 2012, 05:52
surestrikeNo doubt that it is safer to belly land than take the risk of leaving one down and digging in a wing and cartwheeling. On a P-51 the radiator scoop will collapse on a belly landing making for a pretty smooth slide.
Not to mention that repairing the belly skin is much cheaper than trying to repair/replace a bent wing which is guaranteed with one roller down and one up.
Check it out her is some footage of a mustang making a belly landing. Not as dramatic as you'd think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dJCxn7y3_c
03 March 2012, 07:50
Grizzly Adamsquote:
Originally posted by Rockrat:
Think I would rather grind some of the belly off, than take a wing out.
Gonna bend the prop, either way.
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03 March 2012, 20:22
surestrikeThat is one of them there givens. If the primary spark arresters won't come down and lock. A prop blade or two or three or four is gonna get bent.
