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Offline Sandman

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P-51 Crash
« on: July 30, 2008, 06:11:04 PM »
Here's a series of shots taken at Oshkosh last year. One of the pilots didn't make it.

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Click the image to see the Flickr stream.
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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2008, 06:13:59 PM »
Welcome to one year ago.
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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2008, 06:27:41 PM »
Quote from: Russian on July 30, 2008, 06:13:59 PM
Welcome to one year ago.

did you not notice he stated that it was in Oshkosh LAST YEAR??

Thanks for sharing the photos sandy. A truley great loss of human life and a great piece of history.

 :salute to the pilot may he always have eternal tailwinds
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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2008, 06:29:48 PM »
Quote from: WilldCrd on July 30, 2008, 06:27:41 PM
did you not notice he stated that it was in Oshkosh LAST YEAR??

Thanks for sharing the photos sandy. A truley great loss of human life and a great piece of history.

 :salute to the pilot may he always have eternal tailwinds

Russian was right. I did state, "this week." Saw the month and day and completely disregarded the year. I was correcting it while Russian was typing.
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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2008, 06:51:29 PM »
How did that happen?
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Offline Chalenge

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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2008, 07:25:50 PM »
The pilot flying #2 was off the mark flying a brand new rebuild and over controlled trying to avoid #1 who he almost killed anyway (his prop missed the #1 pilot by little more than a foot).
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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2008, 09:36:30 PM »
The front plane should not touch down first.
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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2008, 11:12:37 PM »
Quote from: Sandman on July 30, 2008, 06:11:04 PM
Here's a series of shots taken at Oshkosh last year. One of the pilots didn't make it.

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Click the image to see the Flickr stream.

yes, there was a very good quality video on ANnews or something like that.

the number one plane touched down first, and number 2 clipped his verticle stab with his right wing. number 2 was still airborn at the time, and immediatly flipped.

i think there's still video out there....

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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2008, 11:18:57 PM »
Footage of crash w/ commentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exmm5ZhgXOU

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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2008, 11:20:19 PM »
Quote from: Dago on July 30, 2008, 09:36:30 PM
The front plane should not touch down first.

     There shouldn't be formation landings period...IMO it's showboating and got those poor guys
in a world of hurt.
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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2008, 11:28:04 PM »
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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2008, 11:30:09 PM »
And can't forget, this was a few days before that p51 crash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHedj-mFI3Y
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Re: P-51 Crash
« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2008, 11:35:19 PM »
Quote from: Rino on July 30, 2008, 11:20:19 PM
     There shouldn't be formation landings period...IMO it's showboating and got those poor guys
in a world of hurt.

The pilots weren't intending to land in formation, which I also agree is dangerous.  There was a miscommunication as the planes set up to land and the 51A closed in on the 51D without realizing it...  I was a mock air race and the all aircraft were landing with a 1-2 mid separation.

Very sad loss of a well known pilot.
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