Question about the P-51D

[Guppy35]

I make no claims to have data to back it up.  I've never flown a P51 for real.

What I do know is having flown it a bunch lately in the MA and it some scenario bits, it does everything that I've ever read by wartime Mustang pilots.  If you get too slow, it gets sloppy.  But it turn fights well if you fight at the speeds that it turns best, and use a bit of flap now and then.  It has the speed to get you out of trouble, and it has the range to go a long way.  It fights well up high, and can knife fight down low.

Not sure what else you want from it.  All I know for sure is it lets my cartoon pilot and my imagination pretend I'm a WW2 Mustang driver when I fly it which is all I ask for.

[bozon]

Are you trying to F%@# with me, or do you just not have any info, they did use the P-51, real pony pilots say this is the way it flies.

Chill out man. Jeesh. Is pot illegal in your country or something?

[R 105]

 As a kid a family friend owned a P-51D he used in air shows until he was killed in a plane accident in 1966. Ray was a flight instructor for the 51 in WWII. while Ray's plane had no armor or guns and didn't fly with a combat load of fuel it was an amazing plane. He would fly it 20 feet off the ground at 400+mph right in front of the grand stand at an air show. Then clime straight up until it stalled. He could get it to spin around and almost point back in the direction it came from and it was as maneuverable as you could ask for.

 One of the things I will always remember is Ray letting me kneel behind his seat in the cockpit where the fuel tank use to be while he taxied it down the runway to his hangar where he kept it, I could feel the motor in my chest. Maybe this is why I have always been a bit disappointed in the Aces high P-51D. Maybe I would feel different if I had foot paddles and a computer and more frame rate. I wonder what someone like Chuck Yeager would think of HTC's modeling of the P51-D?

 I still like the 51 in Aces high and it is about all I fly. It is fast carries a lot of ords has great range and speed to get you out of Dodge if you need to. like I said else where in this thread if I was going to pick a another modeling of the 51 I would go with the modeling on Dog Fight from HBO. But watch what you wish for or you could see everyone flying a 51 in the game and how boring would that be?