P-51 Mustang/Miss Velma Emergency Landing

Triplane102 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:55 pm **Posts:** 491

I see she had the Canopy slid back, but when did it come off ?

( Glad Everyone survived the "HORROR IN THE SKIES "! :shock:

so says The Sun :roll:

)

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11336

Thank you all for not devolving into the mess that was on the WIX Facebook site. Cooler heads prevail here thankfully.

Miss Velma was restored in Chino as I recall. Maybe she'll be back?

JohnTerrell · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2017 6:41 pm

The project began as a new-build airframe/parts plane from Odegaard Aviation (including the complete wing), that made its way to Square One Aviation at Chino in the early 2000's for conversion to TF-51D configuration. When Square One dissolved, TFC acquired the project/parts-sections and had them transferred to Fighter Rebuilders for completion (between 2005-2007). Some of the work/parts were done by Aero Trader and Matt Nightingale.

DH82EH · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2017 7:19 pm

Thanks John T.
I enjoy all of your posts.

Andy

Bradburger · **Posted:** Tue Jul 11, 2017 9:27 pm

Some good footage posted by Stephen Keeler filmed from the airfield, from the taxi out, the balbo, and then the forced landing: -

https://youtu.be/3LdrY79g99Q?list=FLGH1 ... 4t5Tnhlnkg

Cheers

Paul

Scott Rose · **Posted:** Wed Jul 12, 2017 7:33 am

bdk wrote:

Thank you all for not devolving into the mess that was on the WIX Facebook site. Cooler heads prevail here thankfully.

Miss Velma was restored in Chino as I recall. Maybe she'll be back?

I've done a bit of pruning on that thread :axe:

MKD1966 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 12, 2017 10:27 am

TBM Tony wrote:

I see she had the Canopy slid back, but when did it come off ?

( Glad Everyone survived the "HORROR IN THE SKIES "! :shock:

so says The Sun :roll:

)

I had been wondering the same thing myself about the canopy and this morning on the keypublishing.com page there is a video of landing in the form of stills and at the :33 second mark you see the canopy depart the aircraft after it appears the right wingtip either hits something or digs in and Miss Velma starts spinning to the right a little... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8dHKwkLNnI
Mike

Tom Moungovan · **Posted:** Wed Jul 12, 2017 3:25 pm

I got air to air photos of her in June or so of 2007 from POF's P-40. Steve Hinton was flying
another P-51 as chase. Sorry I am unable to scan anything here.

Lon Moer · **Posted:** Wed Jul 12, 2017 3:29 pm

Here's the towing recovery back to the airport video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb5ADn6-voc

Triplane102 · **Joined:** Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:55 pm **Posts:** 491

MKD1966 wrote:

TBM Tony wrote:

I see she had the Canopy slid back, but when did it come off ?

( Glad Everyone survived the "HORROR IN THE SKIES "! :shock:

so says The Sun :roll:

)

I had been wondering the same thing myself about the canopy and this morning on the keypublishing.com page there is a video of landing in the form of stills and at the :33 second mark you see the canopy depart the aircraft after it appears the right wingtip either hits something or digs in in and Miss Velma starts spinning to the right a little... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8dHKwkLNnI
Mike

Thanks Mike ! geek

Also, ALWAYS Good to have input from John Terrell !

Spitty · **Posted:** Thu Jul 13, 2017 5:56 pm

Bit more from the pilot.
https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.ph ... 1&start=45

garbs · **Posted:** Thu Sep 13, 2018 11:25 pm

Did a very short search and didn’t see this video posted. Mods can delete if it’s already out there.

https://youtu.be/BBpqvPujZgM

phil65 · **Posted:** Fri Sep 14, 2018 12:00 am

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=66509#p603265

I did, kind of.... :wink:

Phil

garbs · **Posted:** Fri Sep 14, 2018 7:41 am

Figured it had to be out there. My mistake was searching only for “Miss Velma” and not the pilot’s name or the location. My bad.

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