Must bang Mustang??

[PRB]

This is GOOD STUFF! (well, for a P-51 video, hehe). Hey Bomber_12th, you nailed the sound, from the inside, with your FSX P-51s. These look like P-51Hs though...

[johannesl]

It may look like an "H" but some "D"s have had the taller "H" tail retro-fitted. The angled leading edge at the root to accommodate the main gear wheels says it's a "D" though.

[PRB]

Interesting. I didn't know about the D tall tail mods. What I liked about this video was the great info on flying characteristics of the Mustang, and how the instructor coached the student. Coming out of the loop, he almost stalled it the first time. Very interesting. This is what interests me about flight sims. Not whether or not the AUX Backup Hyd1 System Isolation Switch, in DSAT-2 mode, results in the correct system pressure drop in accordance with the TAC ORD 001-0287665, Page 653, Paragraph 4.5.6.7g... On stalls: You could see, in the camera shake, the buffet just before the stall. Very cool. Just a fascinating video. Love stuff like this. Did you see when the instructor would caution: "easy... easy... EASY!!!", and the guy in back was hardly even moving the stick? That's good stuff...

[Bomber_12th]

These TF-51D's have the taller tail fin cap added atop a stock P-51D tail (no H-model tail/parts involved at all). Around 1944/45, the NACA (forerunner to NASA), working with North American Aviation, designed and produced a taller cap at the tip of the vertical tail fin for the high-speed test P-51D's (and B), which made the vertical fin taller and allowed the aircraft to be more stable in yaw in high-speed dives. One of these NACA P-51D's (NACA 108/44-13257), with the extended tail fin cap, later became the Trans-Florida Aviation prototype Cavalier Mustang in the late 60's. Trans-Florida Aviation liked the NACA taller tail fin cap and copied them and used them on their Cavalier Mustangs (three of which were a combination TEMCO TF-51D, with the extended dual-control cockpit and with the Cavalier-addition of the NACA tail fin cap - which the earlier TEMCO TF-51D's never had). The two TF-51D's seen in this video, operated by Stallion-51, are both non-original TF-51D's, and only became TF-51D's when the airframes were rebuilt/restored (80's and 90's). As with most of these modern TF-51D's, they are modeled after a combination of the original 1950's TEMCO TF-51D's and the few, later, 60's-era Cavalier TF-51D's.

[PRB]

Thanks John. Very interesting, as always!