Mxsmanic

Where did you fly the 51? What AAC organization and theater?

Or did you fly with a Guard unit (which one) after the war?

What power setting did lead hold on final so wing could stay in
formation?

Interested in your replies to these technical questions I have posed.

Big John
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:09:18 +0200 (CEST), Mxsmanic
wrote:

Big John wrote:

In my 650 hours in the bird, I never saw formation landings. Sometimes
the birds got close together after touch down but the wing man never
got up into a formation position or passed the ship ahead.

I have done hundreds of formation landings in P-51s. Those two at Oshkosh
must have been total losers to crash doing something so simple.