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Originally Posted by Mysticpuma
Okay, so the P-47 was renowned as being a real tough bird. I posted this on the ubi forums in 2008 and if you give it the chance and download the audio file, you will here Art Fiedler of the 325th, who flew P-47's and P-51's (He was an Ace in the 51) talking about the problems that pilots encountered in the P-47 and also the fact that he never once saw a wing break of a P-51 except when an undercarriage malfunctioned.
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He never saw that because pilots were not stupid enough to kill themselves for nothing. Luckily, USA planes are well documented and lot of these documents are available. When we were making G Limits model we used USA planes to calibrate the model.
If we are talking about P-51 this is snippet of what Air Technical Service Command has to say about it.
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In order to reduce the possibility of structural failures of the wings on P-51D,P-51K, F-6D and F-6K, two commonly held misconceptions regarding fighter type aircraft must be corrected. These are:
a) The belief that fighter airplanes are designed to such high load factors ("G's")that they are practically indestructible by any readily applied air load.
b) That since the possible loading conditions are relatively few, that unbalance resulting in instability is impossible.
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