Duxford 2011 Pix

[123-Wulf-123]

Red Bull on a P38 is bloody sacrilege

I see no 109s.

[Sven]

To keep the birds flying I think the Red Bull logo is needed? Better a beautiful P38 with the logo then no P38 at all right?

And I see the whale-109 has also joined the party Good quality pictures as well for a cell phone, but I guess my own is just 'old'

[Ze-Jamz]

Originally Posted by Sven

To keep the birds flying I think the Red Bull logo is needed? Better a beautiful P38 with the logo then no P38 at all right?

And I see the whale-109 has also joined the party Good quality pictures as well for a cell phone, but I guess my own is just 'old'

Lol funny enough its the latest Iphone that I have and the camera res is quite low tbh and only look ok if your viewing them on the actual phone because the screen is so good but these dont look so bad considering

[PeterPanPan]

.... well this has to be the best war 'bird' at the show

PPP

[danjama]

That Spitfire mk I did indeed fly! Magnificent. There's another Spitfire about to become airworthy, and will have the classic BoB paint scheme - half black, half white belly. Can't wait.

Think it's a Fighter Collection spit.

[skouras]

Great pics and great planes
Thanks for sharing...

[Lololopoulos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oJngucEac4

P-51 "Big Beautiful Doll" had a mid-air collision with a skyraider. The skyraider consequently lost a small portion of the wing and the pilot managed to land it safely. Unfortunately, the P-51 pilot had to bail out at 500 ft and "Big Beautiful Doll" was lost.

Personally, I think the pilot could still land the P-51 given that no damage was incurred on any of the control surfaces, (idk for sure, maybe I'm wrong?) he might bailed out because the plane was hit so hard that it became out of control? maybe it was going into a spin?

What do u guys think?

[Tiger27]

Originally Posted by Lololopoulos

P-51 "Big Beautiful Doll" had a mid-air collision with a skyraider. The skyraider consequently lost a small portion of the wing and the pilot managed to land it safely. Unfortunately, the P-51 pilot had to bail out at 500 ft and "Big Beautiful Doll" was lost.

Personally, I think the pilot could still land the P-51 given that no damage was incurred on any of the control surfaces, (idk for sure, maybe I'm wrong?) he might bailed out because the plane was hit so hard that it became out of control? maybe it was going into a spin?

What do u guys think?

Looked like it was out of control, may have had damaged elevators, not sure how it would be crash landing a P51 with that big air intake, but it looked like the pilot had time to make the right decision, fortunately the crashed '51 didnt burn, looks like the will be able to rebuild it eventually.

[Lololopoulos]

Originally Posted by Tiger27

Looked like it was out of control, may have had damaged elevators, not sure how it would be crash landing a P51 with that big air intake, but it looked like the pilot had time to make the right decision, fortunately the crashed '51 didnt burn, looks like the will be able to rebuild it eventually.

oh u think they can rebuild it? that's good news. i hope it would happen. but I also think they probably wouldn't bother with wreckage like that cus the cost would probably be too high.

[Lololopoulos]

from the zoomed in camera view it really looks like the wing hit the fuselage right before the elevators. and control was regained after it swung left to right drastically.

If it happened in CloD, i would land that P-51.