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Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: oboe on July 07, 2005, 04:11:31 PM

I remember you saying something about wanting to do this a while back - and maybe adding an earlier P-51 (P-51A or A-36?) to use the original braced canopy.

Much thanks for considering it!

Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: Furball on July 07, 2005, 04:28:04 PM

bet it does!

Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: NoBaddy on July 07, 2005, 06:58:57 PM

Yes.

Lil birdy told me we would see the A36 also (need to find a use for that birdcage) :).

Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: Rafe35 on July 07, 2005, 09:32:41 PM

A-36 will probably be perk plane lol

Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: Arty on July 07, 2005, 10:15:18 PM

How real will the Apache be? Will they wire the dive brakes shut like on the real ones? Just wondering.

Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: Suave on July 08, 2005, 01:14:26 AM

If it has a malcolm hood doesn't that make it a mustang and not a p51 anymore ? The RAF didn't have any p51s ;)

Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: Magoo on July 08, 2005, 07:18:14 AM

Just a little blurb from Joe Baugher's site regarding the A36 Apache's dive brakes:

A sort of urban legend has sprung up about the A-36A's dive brakes. According to some stories, the dive brakes of the A-36A were next to useless and were deliberately wired shut at the manufacturers so that they could not be used. This story is totally incorrect. On the contrary, the dive brakes proved to be quite effective in combat, and the aircraft was so stable with the dive brakes extended that bombing while in a dive was particularly accurate. The origin of this legend seems to have been in the United States, at a time before the Invaders first went overseas. It seems that A-36A pilots were told by their officers in the USA that their dive brakes would be all but useless in combat and it would be best if they simply wired them shut. This turned out to be incorrect, and the dive brakes were used to great effect throughout the Sicilian campaign and the Italian invasion.

Magoo

Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: oboe on July 08, 2005, 09:06:33 AM

I believe the A-36's dive brakes were similiar to the SBD's - upper and lower perforated flaps.    Not positive though.

Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: Arty on July 08, 2005, 08:34:56 PM

Thanks for that reply Magoo. I had never read that before.

Arty

Title: PYRO: Will redone P-51B get Malcolm hood?
Post by: Slash27 on July 08, 2005, 08:42:27 PM

Quote

Originally posted by Suave
If it has a malcolm hood doesn't that make it a mustang and not a p51 anymore ? The RAF didn't have any p51s ;)

U.S. Mustangs had them too.