Great video, Dave, thank you the for time and effort it took to film, edit, and narrate that so we can all see a little of what it's like to fly the P-40. Your channel and Kermit's "Kermie Cam" videos are my absolute favorites on youtube for warbird POV instructional type videos.
A few questions for you:
1) In the beginning you put that parachute spacer on your seat to adjust your sitting height for the proper eyesight angle out the cockpit. Does the P-40 seat not adjust vertically? If it does, why do you use the spacer?
2) Upon watching the video it appears that your right foot is pretty substantially planted to counteract the left swing prevalent on takeoff. In your estimation, how much right rudder pedal deflection does it take in percent of full rudder authority? In other words, do you use about half or what fraction/percentage of full authority? Just curious how much is typical on this. How does this amount compare to the percentage of right rudder pedal deflection on the Spitfire and Mustang on takeoff?
3) You commented on the roll rate of the P-40. Though I've flown neither the P-40 nor P-51, I've spoken to many pilots who fly both, and almost all of them say they prefer the P-40 in the low altitude environment due to the increased performance over the Mustang. Do you find this to be your perference as well? Which of the two do you prefer for airshow/flyby work?
Thanks again, and I hope you can produce more of these type videos in the future. We'll never get bored of these....hint, hint, lol.
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