Sun May 23, 2010 4:32 pm
Sun May 23, 2010 6:53 pm
Sun May 23, 2010 9:09 pm
Sun May 23, 2010 9:41 pm
b29flteng wrote:I remember an article that told of the B/C models loosing their wings in a steep dive due to air getting under the gear doors. I think the latching system was changed. Can any Mustang gurus shed any light on this?
Sun May 23, 2010 9:55 pm
b29driver wrote:Airplanes missing an entire horizontal stabilizer don't make it back home.
Sun May 23, 2010 10:09 pm
barnbstormer wrote:
Sun May 23, 2010 10:16 pm
Sun May 23, 2010 10:29 pm
Sun May 23, 2010 10:41 pm
barnbstormer wrote: One of first things I enlarged (for comparison)was the second P-51 way off in the back left distance. you can hardly see much-but one thing you CAN clearly see is the large front-of-fin to fuselage fillet on that tail. If there is a fin/fus fillet on the near one, I don't see it. Absence of the fillet on the near one is odd I thought
Sun May 23, 2010 11:22 pm
Sun May 23, 2010 11:49 pm
Mon May 24, 2010 6:49 am
Mon May 24, 2010 8:45 am
The Inspector wrote: What you are seeing in that photo is a trick of placement and lighting combined with film stock that was pretty slow due to less silver in the negative paper due to silver being needed for more important things during the war than pictures.
Mon May 24, 2010 5:11 pm
b29driver wrote:Airplanes missing an entire horizontal stabilizer don't make it back home.
Mon May 24, 2010 9:37 pm
bipe215 wrote:I realize that the P-51 has a one piece stab, which obviously is impossible to fly without. However, aircraft with left and right stabs can fly with one entire stab gone.