Great video, there are couple of questions I would ask though.
1) Why did he not turn much tighter to return to the airfield, one looses much less height in a tight turn that a shallow one? From a tight turn he might have been able to land downwind. Of course I do not know what the winds were, or how feasible is to land P-51 downwind.
2) Why did he cross the highway, surely he could have turned base halfway down the strip and have enough runway to stop.
Whilst I appreciate that he did not do it under the pressure of the situation, I was surprised however, that it did not come up in the discussion.
Cheers
Paul
On Sunday, 2 August 2020 03:05:48 UTC+10, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sat, 01 Aug 2020 08:29:13 -0700, jfitch wrote:
This is slightly off topic, as its about an engine failure in a P-51, but
is well worth watching because the majority of it is concerned with the
pilot talking us through a video shot from the aircraft followed by a
very interesting discussion as he and the interviewer unpick his thought
processes. Here's the link:
https://youtu.be/BBpqvPujZgM
FWIW the URL was posted in a club heads-up about power loss in a tug or
TMG.
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