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Title: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: Filip on August 25, 2008, 02:23:11 PM: At first, I did not intend it to do so. As I was struggling from battle damage, oil leaking, wet foot, decided to give a try and land my P51D on near carrier. As I went for final approach, gear down, full flaps, shivering on minimum speed and with no hook :rock ... my engine just quit few yards off the threshold. Consequently I stalled and craped bellow the deck, with terrific blast, finding myself on low level carrier floor. And still alive.

Enjoy and comment please :salute
PS: my first post here
Filip (Czech)
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: Denholm on August 25, 2008, 02:28:55 PM: Browse around some and you'll find pictures of people landing in the CV's hangar. Great, "landing." :aok
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: titanic3 on August 25, 2008, 02:29:26 PM: Must have sucked for the maintenance crew.
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: Denholm on August 25, 2008, 02:31:52 PM: I'd say for the crew filming the bizarre version of titanic.
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: Latrobe on August 25, 2008, 04:02:51 PM: Really takes no skill to land a non-CV plane on a cv, but it takes all luck to do that!! One of the weirdest/best landings I've seen. :aok
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: uberslet on August 25, 2008, 04:05:10 PM: Quote from: Latrobe on August 25, 2008, 04:02:51 PM
Really takes no skill to land a non-CV plane on a cv, but it takes all luck to do that!! One of the weirdest/best landings I've seen. :aok
agreed about that landing, teahc me some day how to land a non-CV plane on a CV please?
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: Redlegs on August 25, 2008, 04:17:36 PM: Quote from: uberslet on August 25, 2008, 04:05:10 PM
agreed about that landing, teahc me some day how to land a non-CV plane on a CV please?

just belly land it's the easiest way
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: uberslet on August 25, 2008, 04:22:40 PM: Quote from: Redlegs on August 25, 2008, 04:17:36 PM
just belly land it's the easiest way
<-to fried to think of that simple answer... :cry
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: Motherland on August 25, 2008, 04:35:01 PM: I've several times landed a 109 or 190 on a CV, rearmed, and re-up'd. Not much harder than landing on a normal runway, it's just shorter.
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: Denholm on August 25, 2008, 04:36:47 PM: Not by much if you add in the carrier moving at 50 knots.
Title: Re: How to land P51 on carrier
Post by: Filip on August 25, 2008, 10:55:00 PM: Thanks a lot for your comments, enjoyed reading it :)
So maybe if my engine hasn't stopped, i could do that than. That is what i rely wasn't much expecting, I just went for a bloody try.
Quote from: titanic3 on August 25, 2008, 02:29:26 PM
Must have sucked for the maintenance crew.
:devil No need of those maintenance crew now, since ac can autoland directly into hangars. LOL