Maintenance crew riding on the wing of P-51

[Carrel]

A lot of the P-51s and P-47 who have a ground crew on the end of the wing to guild them as they are taxing onto the run way or off.  When you get onto AH, jump into a P-51 and try to taxi your self off the runway with out refueling.  See how well you can see what is in front of you. 

Thank you Oakranger for FINALLY explaining it to me. Nobody else was making any sense. 

[flight17]

im pretty sure a lot of us all said the same thing...

[Rino]

     Guess we should have used smaller words 

[allaire]

     Guess we should have used smaller words 

And pictures.

[Carrel]

And pictures.

I saw the picture and got confused because someone said the reason the crewmen were sitting on the wings was because the pilot couldn't see. It was a logical conclusion what they were saying was the pilot was blind, and that made no sense to me at all. Even a noob like me knows there were no blind pilots in WW2, not to mention spotters couldn't sit on the wings during extreme ACMs without seat belts, at least...and also not to mention, how could the spotters communicate to a blind pilot? Hand signals? And the drag of a couple of seat belted spotters  on your wings would maybe effect the aerodynamics of that aircraft. 

I'm willing to chalk this one up to a misunderstanding. In the future I hope some of you communicate better, I'm disappointed it took so many posts in this thread to finally work through it...it's like some of you can't understand plain English.

[EskimoJoe]

This is.... truly sad..

[oakranger]

OK guys, he got a little confused about what i said.  He now understand. 

[Tigger29]

I saw the picture and got confused because someone said the reason the crewmen were sitting on the wings was because the pilot couldn't see. It was a logical conclusion what they were saying was the pilot was blind, and that made no sense to me at all. Even a noob like me knows there were no blind pilots in WW2, not to mention spotters couldn't sit on the wings during extreme ACMs without seat belts, at least...and also not to mention, how could the spotters communicate to a blind pilot? Hand signals? And the drag of a couple of seat belted spotters  on your wings would maybe effect the aerodynamics of that aircraft. 

I'm willing to chalk this one up to a misunderstanding. In the future I hope some of you communicate better, I'm disappointed it took so many posts in this thread to finally work through it...it's like some of you can't understand plain English.

Seems very sheldon-esque to me!