Author Topic: HOW NOT TO LAND A P-51D - Video With Prop Strike (OUCH)  (Read 674 times)

Offline Vraciu

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Re: HOW NOT TO LAND A P-51D - Video With Prop Strike (OUCH)
« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2017, 10:27:36 PM »
These vids show me the gear on a Mustang.........way tougher than modeled in here.   Wow. 
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Re: HOW NOT TO LAND A P-51D - Video With Prop Strike (OUCH)
« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2017, 06:00:23 PM »
With the Miss Helen video it looked to me like there was a power loss from the smoke puff and then trying to stretch the glide until bagging it and hoping for the best while flying as far into the crash as he could.  Turned out as well as you could expect from taking it off a ski jump with about 10 seconds of warning and he danced on the rudders when the nose started coming back to the right. 

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Re: HOW NOT TO LAND A P-51D - Video With Prop Strike (OUCH)
« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2017, 08:44:59 PM »
With the Miss Helen video it looked to me like there was a power loss from the smoke puff

My take was the smoke was from "clearing" the engine.  You can here it still running until it's eased back to idle in the flare.

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Re: HOW NOT TO LAND A P-51D - Video With Prop Strike (OUCH)
« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2017, 08:56:42 PM »
That's valid and didn't think anything much of it at first. After another couple go's I felt like I saw a glide path change from needing the power to drag the airplane up to the threshold to not making it because of what I believe was *something* sapping power when the pilot was counting on it.

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Re: HOW NOT TO LAND A P-51D - Video With Prop Strike (OUCH)
« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2017, 04:46:01 AM »
lol any experienced AH player can do a better job I guess...
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Re: HOW NOT TO LAND A P-51D - Video With Prop Strike (OUCH)
« Reply #20 on: May 02, 2017, 04:22:37 PM »
It looks like the engine conked out on the P-51. 

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G-BIXL was on a final approach to land on a grass runway when the engine began to run roughly. The pilot advanced the throttle which led to a marked reduction in power. The aircraft touched down on the grass short of the runway but was forced back into the air when it crossed the lip of a raised taxiway. During the following touchdown and deceleration, the left main gear was damaged and the propeller hit the ground before the aircraft came to a halt. The cause of the rough running and power loss was not positively determined at the time of publication of this report.

Accident report: https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/north-american-p-51d-20-mustang-g-bixl-13-july-2008
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Re: HOW NOT TO LAND A P-51D - Video With Prop Strike (OUCH)
« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2017, 05:03:04 PM »
If you can afford an airworthy P-51, you can afford to rebuild the engine. If not, he just made a museum piece.
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