March 5, 201214 yr I don't own the p51 (I think it is) in Flight.But I landed at an airport for fuel a few years ago and there was a picture of a cracked up p51 on the side of the runway. I was examining it, and a guy came up and said-"yeah I was the dummy who did that". He was a very experienced pilot-bought the plane for fun-got in it on the first flight and gave it full throttle. Right off the side he went-wonder how the Flight one does?>When I flew the 51 with Lee Lauderback, I had the controls for all the phases of Flight except takeoff, while I I had the controls for the touchdown on landing, he took control of the rudders once on the ground. At the debriefing he told me that if I was wondering why he didn't let me do the takeoff, he said because if you were not use to it, and give it the right throttle advancement, and proper amount of rudder, the Mustang with it's power, could easily get away from you and end up off the runway. Obviously what happened to guy above. That's a real expensive lesson, as these things go for a couple of million these days. Edited March 5, 201214 yr by tf51d Thanks Tom My Youtube Videos! http://www.youtube.com/user/tf51d
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