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Title: How a P-51 Works
Post by: Tony Drago on January 24, 2022, 11:37:23 PM
Found this to be interesting details about a P-51.
https://youtu.be/hjsrqMe0B3s
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: peabody on January 25, 2022, 07:10:52 AM
Cool...and a LOT of work.

BTW...I know how a P-38 works
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: Steve Berry on January 25, 2022, 07:39:39 AM
Quote from: peabody on January 25, 2022, 07:10:52 AM
Cool...and a LOT of work.

BTW...I know how a P-38 works
Me, too....

https://youtu.be/1jnQbN_2Tnk

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Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: Claudio Chacon on January 26, 2022, 07:13:33 AM
Quote from: Tony Drago on January 24, 2022, 11:37:23 PM
Found this to be interesting details about a P-51.
https://youtu.be/hjsrqMe0B3s

Great animation!
Thanks for posting!
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: Paul Smith on January 26, 2022, 08:59:55 AM
The RAF always gave American-sounding name to American airplanes.  The Mustang is one case in which the US accepted the English name.

According the history I read, the RAF tried to get Americans to build the Spitfire.  The Berliner-Joyce company, which wisely relabeled itself North American, revised and upgraded the Spitfire to become the P-51.  The J that The Navy uses to designate North American goes back to Joyce.
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: Steve Dwyer on January 26, 2022, 10:15:41 AM
For three excellent videos on the P51 go to: Kermi Cam North American P51D or try the following link. Kermit Weeks posts three videos, first a preflight walk around, second a cock pit operational you can compare to McNeal's video above and lastly flying the P51 over Fantasy of Flight. All three are excellent and worth watching. In his flight he has a gear indicator lamp malfunction but he lands ok. The flying video really put me back into my Vans RV9 even though I did not have a constant speed prop or retracting gear. The 70 year old IC technology still essentially exists today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzKFkYLHq3Q

Steve
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: Air Ministry . on January 26, 2022, 09:30:39 PM
Be nice to see Weeks Tempest in NZ to get sorted out . Some patroniseing slob thinks theyed do a better mosquito in the U K . . at ten times the price , no doubt . With bits missing .

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRBis2iYBV-SkmapjemjKrLuKifFyy8sWvhLP_KtbWMzOBZk-G1VbWTvmhE91WYkX_ZwQw&usqp=CAU)

Plenty of Sea Furys done in N Z , & a Temest 2 there , I think .



https://www.fantasyofflight.com/collection/kermit-weeks/rare-hawker-tempest-v-update/

Think he gave up in disgust after being robbed .

Like Older Cars , the aeroplanes might be a bit of a bitch , but nothing like them built these days . Tho you can get all the pieces to do a Spitfire now , New ! .
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: Reptoid on January 27, 2022, 12:06:26 AM
Quote from: Tony Drago on January 24, 2022, 11:37:23 PM
Found this to be interesting details about a P-51.
https://youtu.be/hjsrqMe0B3s

 Nice video. Great animation. Anyone else notice in the tail wheel explanation the tail wheel steers in the wrong direction?
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: John Carrodus on January 27, 2022, 02:24:00 PM
Paul.
I must say I'm standing to be corrected, my understanding as follows. The UK was in need of more and superior fighters and issued a new fighter requirement. The challenge was accepted and the P51 was made in record time from first napkin sketch to first flight. Was immediately recognised as a game changer and slightly modified for combat after evaluation by the RAF - Malcom hood, Merlin engine swap out - ( which were hand built- whatever that means? Blue printed?) My uncle - Owen Hardy - a Spitfire ace, told me the Brits designed the Mustang. I don't think that was at all correct, but they did stipulate the performance criteria. Interestingly the 'whistle' that makes the Mustang sound so fantastic comes from the cannon muzzles. I used to accompany my uncle to RNZAF Base Auckland for the annual WW2 485 NZ Squadron get together. Two spits and a Mustang would carry out beatups and aerobatics. The hairs on my neck would stand up, tears well up and my blood would curdle at sight and especially the sound of these air warriors threading holes in the south pacific blue stuff. Owen died a few years back at the ripe age of 96 having a few months earlier flown in a spit in the UK. I miss him and his comrades and forever appreciate their service to hand on what we now seem to be giving away for a piitance. His book- Through My Eyes - is a great yarn.
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: Air Ministry . on January 27, 2022, 06:34:07 PM
OOOH Yuk .

(https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/7165a794f8bbcda8a1b293255736964e/mev-10839202.jpg)

(https://www.americanairmuseum.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/media/media-19080.jpeg?itok=b06jUN1Z)

N. A. something .

(https://acesflyinghigh.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/na-73x-nx19998.jpg)
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: Air Ministry . on January 27, 2022, 06:39:28 PM
Looks like they mayve got it about right straight off . Pretty well stock externally for 500 mph . a few feet of the wings & a smaller faired in canopy is about it , as far as chopping it .

(https://i.imgur.com/KvoLNbv.png)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daChvlMLbJM
Title: Re: How a P-51 Works
Post by: john e. holliday on January 27, 2022, 10:16:55 PM
Nothing like the sounds of a Mustang and Spitfire in formation coming down the main runway about 100+ foot altitude at the Navel Air Station in Chicago in 1970. D>K