P-51D Roll and Roar
Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:48 pm
Nice HD video featuring P-51D "Cripes A' Mighty". Awesome engine roar as it makes several passes for the crowd. Also, some neat cockpit video of Kermit Weeks taking it on a roll, and four point roll. Pretty cool!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94HRSACNZ_w&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94HRSACNZ_w&hd=1
Re: P-51D Roll and Roar
Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:20 am
I WAS THERE!!!!! I'm so glad they have put the video up on Youtube because I tried to take some pictures of it in flight and failed miserably!
Rgds Cking
Rgds Cking
Re: P-51D Roll and Roar
Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:23 am
Nice video. I was lucky enough to have flown in the Cripes many years ago with Linda Meyers at the controls. Great ride.
Re: P-51D Roll and Roar
Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:54 am
Fun video, and great sight/sound quality. Thanks for the link. Made me forget about my lousy morning commute (if only for 2-1/2 minutes or so). 
Re: P-51D Roll and Roar
Fri Aug 24, 2012 4:08 pm
You can see me at 2:11 the handsom guy in the maroon shirt with the black hat on at the left hand side of the screen! I wish I'd been the guy in the green shirt BEHIND Mr Weeks!
Rgds Cking
Rgds Cking
Re: P-51D Roll and Roar
Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:47 pm
Cking wrote:You can see me at 2:11 the handsom guy in the maroon shirt with the black hat on at the left hand side of the screen! I wish I'd been the guy in the green shirt BEHIND Mr Weeks!
Rgds Cking
Right there with you Cking. Would love to catch a ride in that beauty. Mr. green shirt is one lucky sob.
Re: P-51D Roll and Roar
Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:23 pm
Very important Mustang for me as it was with the RNZAF post war and was put back into the air as a civilian aircraft (ZK-CCG) in the 1960s. I saw it on her final flight before being crated and sent to the US in 1974. It was the first real warbird I had seen in the air and even though I hadn't seen one in the "flesh" before I instantly recognised the shape! I was only 12 too!